Sex Tourism on the Kenyan Coast: Romantic Safaris and Unfulfilled Dreams
Rose Omondi · Chris Ryan
Aug 2024 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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This book challenges many suppositions surrounding sex tourism, suggesting that elderly males who seek romance and are caught up in their fantasies of finding love with ‘exotic’ black women are taken advantage of, even while the women are often deluding themselves when searching for the mzungu who will enable them to fulfil their dreams of travel, house ownership and comfort. It is a complex story based on research into the lives of the sex workers obtained from a study conducted over 12 months in the bars and nightclubs of the Kenyan coast. Fortunes are made and lost, but the tragedy is that the success of the few in achieving their dreams becomes a false promise for the majority who seek to emulate the success of the few. The book will be of immense value to those interested in gender studies, and indeed those who hold an interest in the complexities of sex work.
About the author
Dr Rose Omondi has qualifications from the Universities of Nairobi (Kenya), Aberystwyth (Wales), and Waikato (New Zealand). She has worked in marketing in Canada, and was Acting Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology in Kenya. She was County Executive for Trade, Tourism and Heritage for Kisumu County, Kenya.
Chris Ryan is Professor of Tourism at the University of Waikato’s Management School in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has published over 300 refereed journal articles and 15 books. He founded the journals Tourism Management Perspectives and Tourism Critiques, and was Chief Editor of Tourism Management for 25 years. He is director of the Beijing Union University China-New Zealand Tourism Research Unit at Waikato University, New Zealand, and has been consistently listed as one of the top tourism research scholars in global PLOS One rankings.
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