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Barriers to Women’s Participation in Tourism Consumption in Anglophone Cameroon: An Intersectionality Perspective

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Gender, Disability, and Tourism in Africa

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Tourism development in the English-speaking region of Cameroon has been negatively affected by the sociopolitical aspect and the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced a system where tourism services have been highly gendered due to their selective differential treatment of men, women, boys, and girls. These gendered differences are experienced in terms of accessibility and consumption of tourism and are based on cultural, economic, and social factors. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the challenges of inclusive tourism development in an English-speaking region of Cameroon, using a social disability perspective. A qualitative methodology that followed an analytic methodology was used to collect data through face-to-face interviews, participant observations, and document analysis. Challenges to developing inclusive tourism accessibility and consumption in Cameroon are found in the social structures and the sociopolitical context. Further analysis showed that women are faced with structural social and psychological barriers in tourism development and how they consume tourism services. These challenges are attributed to limited access to tourism resources and information, economic hardship, low level of education, self and societal stigmatisation, underestimation, ignorance, and low social network.

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Loveline, N. (2022). Barriers to Women’s Participation in Tourism Consumption in Anglophone Cameroon: An Intersectionality Perspective. In: Woyo, E., Venganai, H. (eds) Gender, Disability, and Tourism in Africa. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12551-5_10

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