Women Empowerment & Skill Development in Tourism Sector

Abstract

Tourism Fosters development of economy. It helps to create employment opportunity, development of entrepreneurs, local industries and infrastructure and at the same time earn foreign exchange. Now a days Women Participation in Tourism Sector is being increased. Sixty percentage of women directly or indirectly contribute their skill in Tourism sector. Tourism provides better opportunities for women’s participation in the workforce, women’s entrepreneurship, and women’s leadership than other sectors of the economy. Women in tourism are still underpaid, underutilized, under-educated, and underrepresented, but tourism offers many pathways to their success. Actually their role & activities are invisible to the world. They are lacking grants from government because of their lack of awareness. This paper will explore the phenomena of Women empowerment and skill development in Tourism sector. This paper reveals the strength & weakness of women in tourism sector, their participation in tourism sector, the challenges faced by them in tourism sector; the development needed for their improvement and finally the government schemes to develop their skills.