Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on Tourism (INTACT) "Post Pandemic Tourism: Trends and Future Directions" (INTACT 2022)

Through NGO Lens: Gendering the Tourism Curriculum

Authors
Laras Candra Laksi1, *, Anindwitya Rizqi Monica1
1Women in Tourism Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: larasclaksi@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Laras Candra Laksi
Available Online 26 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-73-2_30How to use a DOI?
Keywords
NGO; Gender; Curriculum; Tourism
Abstract

Tourism has been promoted as a vehicle for female empowerment [1]. This is in line with UNWTO’s project in 2011 that suggested that tourism could specifically help attain the third millennium development goal: the promotion of gender equality and women empowerment [2]. To date, Women in Tourism as an NGO found out that only 0.3% of tourism universities and institutions in Indonesia currently adopt gender curriculum in its subject. If tourism were to ambitiously become a vehicle for female empowerment, we argue that capacitating the future tourism workforce should start in classroom by infusing gender mainstreaming that adopting a feminist approach in tourism studies. Thus, in contrast to the reality that does not reflect the ideal of the tourism industry yet, Women in Tourism Indonesia held an intensive program which aims to disseminate gender equality to foster creative innovation and promote inclusive development, which later hopes to empower women in the Indonesian tourism industry. This program that was taught in five intensive classes was attended by 45 female and 5 male students throughout Indonesia. The motivation for this paper is to explore the case study; output of the program descriptively by using pre-test and post-test carried out by all the participants to measure the effectiveness of our program. Reflectively with our own practice, we also highlight the potential future strategies for academicians.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on Tourism (INTACT) "Post Pandemic Tourism: Trends and Future Directions" (INTACT 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-73-2_30
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-73-2_30How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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