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dc.contributor.authorHeimtun, Bente
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-30T10:35:40Z
dc.date.available2021-12-30T10:35:40Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractMy interest in understanding female singlehood and holidaymaking started in 2001 when I, at the age of 37, for the first time travelled alone. During the one-week stay in a Turkish beach resort, I started to reflect on why I did not enjoy this holiday much, I felt lonely, self-conscious and vulnerable. At that time in my career, as an applied tourism researcher, I had never thought about notions such as familism, ageism and singlism in relation to holidays (DePaulo & Morris, 2005; Gordon, 1994; Sandfield & Percy, 2003), concepts that later inspired my thinking.<p> <p>My feminist research on gender and tourism started with my PhD in 2003. The focus was on the interrelationships between the holiday experience and social identities of gender, singlehood and midlife (Heimtun, 2007c). At that point, other dissertations had focused on similar issues (Jordan, 2004; Simmons, 2003; Small, 2002; Wilson, 2004) and a few studies had explored the market potential of older single women (Chirivella Caballero & Hart, 1996; Stone & Nichol, 1999), none of them, however, had the spotlight on midlife single women. Based on my PhD, I later conducted a survey among young single men and women. In 2016, I interviewed midlife single women about holidays with aging parents. Later in this chapter, I will explore these studies in some detail. Before doing this, I will present some of my methodological and theoretical underpinnings.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHeimtun B: Single women and holidaymaking. In: Correia, Dolnicar. Women's voices in tourism research: Contributions to knowledge and letters to future generations, 2021. The University of Queensland p. 220-228en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1955627
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14264/817f87d
dc.identifier.isbn9781742723570
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23558
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Queenslanden_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleSingle women and holidaymakingen_US
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