Travel, Tinder and gender in digitally mediated tourism encounters

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Abstract

Popularly referred to as ‘Tinder Tourism’ within media commentary, new dating technologies now permeate travel spaces and shape the sexual encounters travellers have with other travellers and people who live in the destinations they visit. Travel researchers have long acknowledged the link between sex and tourism where sex is not only accepted in contemporary tourism but is also integral to its economic structures and geopolitics. As dating apps such as Tinder penetrate travel and tourism landscapes, it becomes pertinent that we continue to question how their materiality makes and remakes the socio-cultural politics of gender, race, sexuality and nationality, which govern who can have sex with whom, and under what circumstances, within the spheres of travel and tourism.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Geographies of Digital Sexuality
EditorsCatherine Nash, Andrew Gorman-Murray
Place of PublicationSingapore
PublisherPalgrave
Chapter4
Pages49-68
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9789811368769
ISBN (Print)9789811368752
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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