UNWTO joined forces with UN Women, the German
Development Agency GIZ, World Bank and Amadeus to produce the "Global Report on
Women in Tourism, second edition" on 6 November 2019.
The Global Report on Women in Tourism 2010 provided the
first look and a baseline study on the situation of women in the tourism
sector. The second edition of the report considers how the situation has
evolved and provides a thorough assessment of tourisms contribution towards
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 to achieve gender equality and
womens empowerment.
The report has an extended geographical scope covering
developed and developing countries, additional in-depth industry analysis, and
several case-studies that illustrate how women around the world are using
tourism as a vehicle for empowerment and development.
The key findings showed that the majority of the tourism workforce worldwide is female. 54 per cent of people employed in tourism are women compared to 39 per cent in the broader economy. Moreover, tourism offers women greater opportunities for leadership roles. 23 per cent of tourism Ministers are female compared to 20.7 per cent of Ministers overall.
The report also highlighted that more and more women are challenging gender stereotypes in the sector and assuming roles once dominated by men such as tour guides. It also added that technology is an important factor for empowerment, providing women with more training opportunities and stimulating female entrepreneurship through easier access to the tourism market.
Looking over at the Maldives, the tourism industry has significantly progressed on gender equality and a greater percentage of the females are challenging and achieving leadership roles and opportunities which were strictly dominated by males not too long ago.
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