Publication: Gendered practices in urban ethnic tourism in Thailand
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2017-05-01
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01607383
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Mahidol University
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Annals of Tourism Research. Vol.64, (2017), 76-86
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Alexander Trupp, Sirijit Sunanta Gendered practices in urban ethnic tourism in Thailand. Annals of Tourism Research. Vol.64, (2017), 76-86. doi:10.1016/j.annals.2017.02.004 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/42067
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Gendered practices in urban ethnic tourism in Thailand
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The purpose of this research is to investigate the gendered economy of ethnic minority souvenir vending in Thailand's urban and coastal tourist areas. Increasing numbers of the Akha minority group have migrated towards tourist hotspots to engage in urban souvenir vending. Ethnographic research shows that according to the Akha gender division of labour, souvenir production and distribution are considered women's work. Peddling on foot, female Akha souvenir vendors are at the bottom of the informal tourism economy. It is shown that urban ethnic tourism primarily reproduces gender asymmetry in the division of work and that contestations of gender roles prove to be difficult. Mobile street vending enables ethnic minority women to become breadwinners of households but simultaneously reinforces gender inequality.