What gender does to tourism (and vice versa). Introduction

Abstract

this issue of Mondes du tourisme is scientifically and symbolically important. It aims to examine tourism, in all its forms, from a variety of disciplinary approaches (in the social sciences and management sciences), in the light of gender issues. Questioning social relations of domination through the prism of gender relations is a crucial issue (and not only when studying tourism, of course). It is also a complex subject. It is a question of revealing the social mechanisms of societies’ norms by showing the other side of the coin, where patriarchy often remains an unthought in the mode of “it goes without saying”. The aim is, therefore, to characterise the historical, social, spatial, and economic logics that make it possible to negotiate, transgress