RT Journal Article
T1 A gender approach to the impact of COVID-19 on tourism employment
A1 Claudio Quiroga, Gloria
A1 Gil Alana, Luis
A1 Gil López, Águeda
A1 Babinger, Frank
AB This paper analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced employment in the Spanish tourism sector from a gender perspective and aims to infer its impact on sustainability. We use employment data from 2002 (Q1) to 2020 (Q4) on women and men in the Spanish hospitality sector and employ fractional integration methods to determine the temporary scope of the shock. Our results suggest that the impact of the pandemic will have a permanent effect, unless strong policy measures are adopted to resume pre-crisis trends. We also found that persistence is higher for women’s than for men’s employment. Therefore, women seem to be more vulnerable to the shocks of COVID-19, making sustainable development of tourism in Spain more difficult. Based on our results, we offer policy recommendations to counter the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality and tourism sustainability.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0966-9582
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95494
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95494
LA eng
NO Claudio-Quiroga, G., Gil-Alana, L. A., Gil-López, Á., & Babinger, F. (2022). A gender approach to the impact of COVID-19 on tourism employment. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 31(8), 1818–1830. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2022.2068021
NO Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa (España)
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) 
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025