Gender Assessment of the Gambian Tourism Sector

doi:https://doi.org/10.1596/42332

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Gender Assessment of the Gambian Tourism Sector

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2024-10-30T18:57:19Z
dc.date.available	2024-10-30T18:57:19Z
dc.date.issued	2024-10-30
dc.description.abstract	Tourism offers significant opportunities for women’s participation, entrepreneurship, and leadership compared to other sectors, but there are challenges to address. The gender assessment of the tourism sector in the Gambia documents gender disparities and key issues hindering women’s participation and earnings in tourism through the lens of employment, entrepreneurship, and leadership. The assessment also examines cross-cutting factors such as policy and institutional environment, education, and social norms, which impact women’s economic opportunities in the sector and influence their decision to enter and remain in the sector. Despite women showing strong interest in hospitality, reflected in higher enrollment rates than men in tourism and hospitality institutes, this is not translating into higher employment shares due to a combination of key supply- and demand-side barriers. In tourism entrepreneurial activities, most women-owned businesses face challenges in skills development, securing finance, accessing tourism segments and markets, and are further limited by a lack of infrastructure and testing labs. In terms of tourism education, while women are the majority of students in formal tourism programs, they largely lack the high-level and soft skills training needed for career progression, and the school primarily serves the workforce level in hospitality, pointing to an opportunity for new curriculum development in The Gambia. Key to supporting Gambian women in tourism will be to the creation of a safer work environment, better policies and strong enforcement.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099559210032432013/IDU130fdc84c11c7a144441b43d1cd308f34a8ef
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/42332
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42332
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subject	GENDER AND GROWTH
dc.subject	INDUSTRY POLICY AND REAL SECTORS
dc.subject	JOB QUALITY AND LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	GENDER AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
dc.subject	DECENT WORK
dc.subject	GENDER EQUALITY
dc.title	Gender Assessment of the Gambian Tourism Sector	en
dc.type	Report
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Gender Assessment of the Gambian Tourism Sector
okr.date.disclosure	2024-10-30
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-07T08:27:06.322847Z
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-08T16:12:59.796651Z
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-09T03:10:31.949847Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2024-10-11T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099559210032432013/IDU130fdc84c11c7a144441b43d1cd308f34a8ef
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okr.identifier.docmid	IDU-30fdc84c-1c7a-4444-b43d-cd308f34a8ef
okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/42332
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	34399132
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	34399132
okr.identifier.report	193836
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099559210032432013/pdf/IDU130fdc84c11c7a144441b43d1cd308f34a8ef.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.country	Gambia, The
okr.topic	Industry::Accommodation & Tourism Industry
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Economic Policy
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.unit	Gender Impact Evaluation (AFEGI)