'Journeys in Second Life' - Iranian Muslim women's behaviour in virtual tourist destinations

Rokhshad Tavakoli*, Paolo Mura

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ملخص

While corporeal patterns of mobility continue to increase, virtual tourism has become a widespread social practice in contemporary society. Despite this, tourists' experiences in virtual tourist destinations remain relatively unexplored. This is particularly true if Iranian women's gendered identities and patterns of behaviour in virtual tourist destinations are referred to. In order to fill this gap, this paper explores Iranian female tourists' patterns of behaviour travelling in Second Life. Driven by an interpretivist approach, this study employs virtual ethnography, also known as netnography. The findings show that in virtual tourist spaces the participants reject 'subordinated' gender-based stereotypes concerning Muslim women's bodily representations in Iran. However, their gendered performances also accept other 'subordinated' stereotypical representations of femininity, mostly reiterated by the media in many Western societies. Overall, this paper provides a more in-depth understanding of Iranian women's tourist behaviour in virtual tourist destinations, a topic neglected by tourism academics.

اللغة الأصليةEnglish
الصفحات (من إلى)398-407
عدد الصفحات10
دوريةTourism Management
مستوى الصوت46
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرPublished - فبراير 2015
منشور خارجيًانعم

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