UN Tourism and the Ministry of Tourism of Paraguay have launched a groundbreaking report on the position of ladies within the tourism sector. The examine was offered forward of the First Regional Convention on Ladies’s Empowerment in Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Asunción, Paraguay, on 21-22 October.
Along with offering an outline of the contribution girls make to tourism globally, the paper highlights the significance of ladies’s participation in driving sustainable, inclusive transformation within the sector.
Amongst different factors, this new report highlights:
- The position of tourism as a automobile for ladies’s empowerment: girls employees already signify 52% of the whole common workforce within the sector – a determine that rises to 60% in sure segments, corresponding to lodging and catering.
- The variety of girls in tourism schooling: 69% of the whole variety of individuals enrolled in tourism-related research within the area are girls – a determine that reveals that they see tourism as a terrific supply of alternative for his or her future.
Latina girls are the sector’s driving pressure within the area, and this examine makes concrete strategies for selling higher equality and ladies’s participation in tourism
Aside from highlighting the constructive elements of the tourism sector for ladies within the area, the examine additionally highlights the challenges they face. Amongst others, it highlights the job insecurity that flows from unregulated employment, and which primarily impacts girls. This instability makes it harder for ladies to entry financing, social safety and the labour rights that include an honest, regulated job. One other indisputable fact that emerges from the evaluation is that ladies are a minority in decision-making positions in tourism ministries, the place they signify solely 25%. They’re additionally under-represented amongst tourism enterprise house owners and in positions of accountability typically.
In Asunción, exploring methods in the direction of gender equality
The Asunción convention, which marks an necessary step in the direction of gender equality within the tourism sector, brings collectively representatives from numerous Member States, girls leaders within the tourism sector, in addition to gender and tourism consultants to debate the findings of the report, and to share finest observe from such initiatives in their very own nations.
The occasion additionally contains roundtables and workshops to allow contributors to discover methods for implementing the report’s suggestions and inspiring improved working situations, in addition to getting extra girls into management positions within the tourism sector.
“Tourism has monumental potential for ladies’s empowerment, particularly within the Latin American and Caribbean area,” mentioned Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-Common of UN Tourism. “Latina girls are the sector’s driving pressure within the area, and this examine makes concrete strategies for selling higher equality and ladies’s participation in tourism – a key sector for financial growth in lots of nations.”
The First Girl of Paraguay, Leticia Ocampos de Peña, invited all Paraguayan girls to the occasion, which she mentioned was essential as a result of it seeks to boost consciousness of the challenges confronted by girls within the tourism sector, including that “it is going to be a chance to advertise the alternate of information, for the implementation of insurance policies with a gender perspective; to study, develop and promote inclusive tourism.”
For her half, the Minister of Tourism of Paraguay, Angie Duarte, highlighted the importance of SENATUR and UN Tourism’s work in bringing collectively girls from the nationwide tourism sector, and thanked the First Girl, Leticia Ocampos, for her eager help for the initiative, which seeks to deal with gender inequalities throughout the sector and facilitate extra alternatives for ladies’s empowerment.
“This can be a key second to focus on the significance of ladies within the international tourism business, and I invite all these girls who’re working for their very own private growth and that of their communities to affix us on this transformative occasion. Collectively, we will construct a extra equitable and affluent future for all,” she added.
