Women and Tourism: Study of Empowerment of Women Workers in Special Economic Zone at Mandalika, Kuta – Lombok, Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200827.076How to use a DOI?

Keywords

tourism, empowerment, women workers

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the types of work, gender inequality and patterns of women workers empowerment in the tourism service sector at Mandalika Special Economic Zone Lombok, Indonesia. This study employed survey methods by using groups as a unit study. The results indicate that the tourism service industry has encouraged the growth of new types of jobs for women. Currently, women work as sales, waitress, receptionists, traders, handicrafts, tour guides, cashiers, cleaning services, housekeeping and hotel managers. Some misperception about women workers in the tourism sector lead to inequality in working space for women. To empower women resources in the tourism sector, it is necessary to strengthen the capacity of women workers and the empowerment of women including the development of their working skills, the changes in culture and policies beneficial for women workers.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Syafruddin Syafruddin
AU  - Rispawati Rispawati
AU  - Hairil Wadi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/28
TI  - Women and Tourism: Study of Empowerment of Women Workers in Special Economic Zone at Mandalika, Kuta – Lombok, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 302
EP  - 304
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.076
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.076
ID  - Syafruddin2020
ER  -