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Women Leveraging Technology to Innovate & Disrupt Tourism #STHinConversation Ms Judi Nwokedi Tourvest Ms Nwabisa Mayema Branson Center for Entrepreneurship Ms Kim Whitaker UbuntuBeds Dr Stella Bvuma Applied Information Systems, UJ STH BOARD MEMBER Ms Velma Corcoran Regional Representative for Airbnb in Africa
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Women Leveraging Technology toInnovate & Disrupt Tourism
#STHinConversation
Ms Judi NwokediTourvest
Ms Nwabisa MayemaBranson Center forEntrepreneurship
Ms Kim WhitakerUbuntuBeds
Dr Stella BvumaApplied Information
Systems, UJSTH BOARD MEMBER
Ms Velma Corcoran
Regional Representative
for Airbnb in Africa
Women are leaders in the tourism sector and arerepresented and influential in decision-makingspaces GENDER
EQUALITY
PEACE, JUSTICE &STRONG
INSTITUTIONS
A Global Overview
Tourism provides decent work for women
Women's tourism business lead to women's economic empowerment
Tourism education and training promote genderequality and women's empowerment in thesector
Tourism empowers women to work collectivelyfor justice and gender equality
DECENT WORK &ECONOMIC
GROWTH
GENDER EQUALITY
GENDER EQUALITY
GENDER EQUALITY
GENDER EQUALITY
NO POVERTY
QUALITYEDUCATION
PEACE, JUSTICE &STRONG
INSTITUTIONS
- 45.3% of graduates in services worldwide werewomen, somewhat less than the proportion of alltertiary graduates who were women (53.7%).
Source: UNWTO - Global Report on Women in Toursm , https://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284420384
A Global Overview
Source: UNWTO - Global Report on Women in Toursm , https://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284420384
Digital Platforms & Technology
Source: World Economic Forum( 2017)www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/women-in-tech-gender-parity/.
Global Report on Women in Tourism - Focus
Source: UNWTO - Global Report on Women in Toursm , https://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284420384
Education &Training
Leadership &Decision Making
Community &Girl Society
Entrepreneurship Employment
Targeted gender-sensitivetraining and access to
appropriate technology offerexciting opportunities for
women innovation andempowerment.
Quality Education & Gender Equity
Investment in skills training forwomen across the sector, lead to
greateroutcomes for gender equality
Webinar Key Takeaways
Women playdifferent
roles
Data is a barrier fortownship and rural
enterprises
Build yournetworks and
thereby your ownresilience
People remain atthe centre
Solve our dailychallenges
Adapt to rapidtechnologicaland societal
changes
Importance ofpurpose
Technology is anenabler Education
important
Lifelonglearning
Defeat not anoption
Mentor others andrealise what you have
Transformation has toremain central tochanging sector
Women do itfor themselves
Girl Hustle
Take ICT to townships andrural areas
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