Anthropology and Tourism
For instance, in Saudi Arabia women
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need permission for travel, education or even healthcare (Reuters, 2013). This makes women
more constrained in their travel than men (Jackson & Henderson, 1995). On the contrary, in the
USA it is estimated that 32 million single American women have travelled at least once in 2012
(The Gutsy Traveler, 2013). Moreover, America sees a growing trend in adventure travel: the
average adventure traveller is not a 28-year old male anymore, but a 47-year-old female (The
Gutsy Traveler, 2013). When relying on these examples, then female adventure tourism is clearly
influenced by cultural trends. As a result, the western society is afraid to travel to Middle East,
and female in Middle East cannot travel abroad, creating a cultural wall between the two worlds.
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