Body hair and booty calls: Conceptualising ‘empowered-ness’ in travel and tourism for solo female vanlifers

IF 10.4 1区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Annals of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2025.103905

Catheryn Khoo , Prachi Thakur , Mona Ji Hyun Yang , Jessica Mei Pung , Amanda Ting

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Abstract

The present study focuses on advancing the current discourse from women empowerment to ‘empowered-ness’ by conceptualising solo female vanlifers' bodies from travel reflections as a medium to redefine boundaries for socio-cultural norms. This study adopted a multi-faceted approach integrating social-networking-platform and ethnographic data to examine empowered-ness for women in prolonged mobility, and the role of empowered women's bodies in travel. 421 statements from 285 solo female vanlifers were collected through social-networking-platforms, and supplemented with synchronous longitudinal ethnographic data journalling solo female vanlife. The findings demonstrate that female empowered-ness through vanlife mobility manifests through independence from men, unconventional relationships, and risk-taking behaviour. This conceptual shift from empowerment to an ‘empowered’ framework is a contribution to solo female travel literature.

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体毛和约炮：为单身女性旅行者在旅行和旅游中概念化“赋权”

本研究的重点是推动当前的话语从女性赋权到“赋权”，通过将单身女性的身体从旅行反思概念化，作为重新定义社会文化规范界限的媒介。本研究采用多方面的方法，整合了社交网络平台和人种学数据，以考察女性在长期流动中的赋权能力，以及赋权女性身体在旅行中的作用。通过社交网络平台收集了285名独居女性范尼的421份陈述，并辅以同步的纵向民族志数据记录单身女性范尼。研究结果表明，女性通过自由流动而获得权力，体现在独立于男性、非传统关系和冒险行为上。这种从赋权到“赋权”框架的概念转变是对女性独自旅行文学的贡献。

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Annals of Tourism Research Multiple-

CiteScore

19.10

自引率

9.10%

发文量

135

审稿时长

42 days

期刊介绍： The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.