ROLE OF WOMEN, SECURITY AND SAFETY: LEGAL ASPECTS IN TOURISM

Abstract

Tourist industry is providing job opportunities for women and at the same time it affects women’s lives in destination communities. Tourism is considered a vehicle of development. It has potential to contribution to economic development of backward areas and communities. It creates paths towards the elimination of poverty among women in developing countries. Tourism is presently the third largest export industry in India - the first two being gem and jewellery and readymade garments and employs the largest human power in the country especially women. The importance of tourism as a strategy to empower women economically should therefore be questioned in term of their security and safety. This paper is an attempt to present the role of women in nurturing the tourism and at the same time try to bring in flash the security and safety issues of women.