Women, Leisure and Tourism: Self-actualization and Empowerment through the Production and Consumption of Experience

Linda J. Ingram teaches sustainable tourism development and global issues in tourism. Research interests include environmental and cultural sustainability, historic preservation, gender studies, sense of place, material culture, and tourism. She has published in several journals and her first edited book, Neolocalism and tourism: Understanding a global movement, is in process.

Klára Tarkó is a Sociologist and a teacher of English and Physics. Since 2000 she has focused on minority studies and lifestyle research. She leads a practice-based education in health promotion, lifestyle and minority studies. She was project coordinator and sub-programme coordinator of EU funded teaching material development projects. She is the head of the Recreation and Lifestyle BSc and the Health Promotion, Mental Health Promotion postgraduate and in-service training at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She teaches foreign students at several European universities.

Susan L. Slocum specializes in sustainable economic development through tourism and policy implementation at the regional and national level. Working with communities to enhance backward linkages between tourism and traditional industries, she has worked with rural communities in the US, UK, and indigenous populations in emerging tourism destinations in Tanzania. She has published 4 edited books and authored 2 books, including a textbook on food and agricultural tourism.