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Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Women in Tourism
  It became evident early on in the pandemic that many of the impacts on livelihood, employment, income, and work mobilities are of a gendered nature (Assoumou Ella, 2021; Zulver, Cookson, & Fuentes, 2021). As women across the world are more likely to shoulder a higher share of domestic work and caretaking, the challenge to balance paid and domestic labour has increased for many women globally during COVID-19 (Adisa et al., 2020). Moreover, evidence shows that women are also more likely to be laid off or suffer decreased hours and salaries, as well as decreased career mobilities (Tyson & Parker, 2019). While some work has been done in this regard in various Western contexts, Baum et al. (2020) also identify that we know much less about the impacts of COVID-19 on gendered mobilities in tourism and hospitality in the Global South. Our focus in this research is on the gendered experiences of hospitality and tourism workers in three tightly bound, yet differentiated regions in the Asia-Pacific: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. This research explores how experiences of work mobilities during COVID-19 within these regions’ respective tourism and hospitality industries are represented and discussed online from a gendered perspective. In doing this research, our aim was to further our understandings of the practices of tourism workers in China, focusing on issues of inclusion, choice, (im)mobilities, (in)visibilities, and power through the lens of gender during COVID-19

  • Date:

    15 May 2022

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

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Muldoon, M., Witte, A., & Xu, Y.-H. (. (2022, June). Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Women in Tourism. Presented at 9th Critical Tourism Studies Conference, ' With in Dangerous Times', Maó, Menorca

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