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| ON THE STATUS QUO OF STUDY ON FEMALE TOURISM |
| DING Yulian1,2, LU Lin1 |
1. College of Tourism, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China;
2. College of Management Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 231000, China |
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Abstract Female tourist is the important part in tourism industry. With the development of economy, the in creasing of women's stage and the ameliorating of their schooling degree, more and more women start to make holiday. The authors search the thesis on female tourist from the famous journals abroad-Tourism Management and Annals of Tourism Research, and get eleven about it finally. Then the authors also search the articles about it from the journals at home, and get six in the end. This paper is presented on the basis of research works of female tourism both in and abroad. Its content focuses on two aspects. On one hand is female tourist's behaviour. The foreign researchers have studied three sides on it. They are firstly the female tourist's motivation, secondly the young female tourist's perception of danger, and thirdly the behaviour of woman tourist's buying souvenir. Scholars at home believe that gender affects the tourist's behaviour. Woman tourist prefers to buying souvenir and visiting history and culture scenic spot etc. On the other hand is female tourist market. Researchers abroad deem that women especially businesswomen are the fastest growing segment of the travel market. Based on the telephone interviews, in-depth interviews and focus groups, they argue that although the number of women travellers has increased dramatically in the 1990s, their needs are not being met adequately. As competition of tourist market becoming fiercer, female tourist market develops in to the new favorite of tourist industry gradually. Besides these, the foreign researchers have also studied three other sides. The authors compare the study about female tourism from research methods and contents in and abroad, and from them come to some conclusions. Through comparison of the study methods and contents in and abroad, the authors point out that the number of literatures about female tourism is far from enough, the stage of female tourism is on elementary one, the content about it lacks of system, and the achievements are not so remarkable.
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Received: 30 August 2005
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2006, Vol. 21 
