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Power and Empowerment: community-based tourism and the perception of empowerment experienced by women in the rural village of Paramin, Trinidad & Tobago
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Caetano, Marta Lúcia Clemente de Aguilar | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Brasão, Inês Paulo Cordeiro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Touche, Khadesha La | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-05-12T10:53:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-05-12T10:53:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-01-21 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Empowerment as a theory has been studied within the tourism industry in many dimensions such as social constructs. However, in the Caribbean, gender-focused studies on women’s role in tourism have mainly focused on sex tourism. Women meanwhile play a larger and crucial part in the tourism workforce in the Caribbean, the most tourism-dependent zone in the world according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). As a marginalised group, their activity in community-based tourism sectors provide benefits for them that spread to their wider community and support their empowerment. These activities can provide new niche tourism activities, preserve cultural heritage as well as provide benefits such as employment for other marginalised societal groups. Taking into account the lack of research in this area, studies must be done in order to support sustainable tourism policy development in the Caribbean. This dissertation thus has the goal of examining the perception of empowerment experienced by women in tourism businesses in rural Trinidad. Using the village of Paramin as the backdrop, semi open interviews were conducted to give voice to the village women’s experiences and shed light on the way they have perceived their empowerment through the leveraging of their tourism-related businesses and activities for tourism development in Trinidad & Tobago. | eng |
| dc.identifier.tid | 204303494 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/16272 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights.uri | N/A | |
| dc.subject | Community based tourism | |
| dc.subject | Women | |
| dc.subject | Empowerment | |
| dc.subject | Sustainability | |
| dc.title | Power and Empowerment: community-based tourism and the perception of empowerment experienced by women in the rural village of Paramin, Trinidad & Tobago | eng |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| thesis.degree.name | Mestrado em Gestão e Sustentabilidade no Turismo |
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