Over the last five years, two research projects1 on gender issues in the tourism sector – shortly entitled Gentour I2 and II3 – have been developed at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). These projects were submitted to the critical assessment
of an international pool of evaluators, and both rely on solid research which was developed upon strong methodological rigor and in collaboration with an experienced and multidisciplinary research team.
At the international level, there is a considerable body of literature on gender, but the analysis of gender issues in the tourism field has yet to be studied in more depth. While research on tourism networks and internationalisation has boomed
over the last two decades, there are no studies that consistently analyse the interactions between gender and new forms of economic growth. Thus, these projects come across as the main studies in this domain and as valuable inputs to this
relatively new body of knowledge, bringing new perspectives into research on gender equality in organizational contexts, and at the same time creating mechanisms and strategies to fight gender employment inequalities.