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Rossi, E., Thulemark, M. & Duncan, T. (2024). The 'CSR facade' of the hospitality industry: The importance of social responsibility in fighting sex trafficking and illegal sex purchases in hotels. Hospitality & Society, 14(1), 69-92
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The 'CSR facade' of the hospitality industry: The importance of social responsibility in fighting sex trafficking and illegal sex purchases in hotels
2024 (English)In: Hospitality & Society, ISSN 2042-7913, E-ISSN 2042-7921, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 69-92Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Hotels are often regarded as (un)wittingly complicit in terms of sex traffickers using their facilities for illegal sex purchases. This article examines chain employees' experiences of individual social responsibility (ISR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the interaction between hotels and three stakeholder groups (online booking channels; governmental and non -governmental organizations; and nearby hotels) in the fight against sex trafficking and illegal sex purchases. Employee perspectives were gathered through semi -structured interviews in Sweden and the Netherlands, two countries with distinctive prostitution legislation. The findings highlight that the hotel employees found tensions between ISR and CSR and the relationship with the external stakeholders challenging. What became apparent was that CSR is often a facade used to report back positive results to external stakeholders rather than CSR and ISR playing a proactive role in fighting sex trafficking and illegal sexual purchases. We conclude by arguing for the necessity to better understand the relationships between ISR and CSR within the hospitality industry and suggesting that there remains a need for better understandings of how CSR can work across industry stakeholders and within academic research in order to ensure actionable outcomes that make a difference.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Intellect Ltd., 2024
Keywords
corporate social, responsibility, individual social, human trafficking, hospitality workers, Sweden the Netherlands
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-48793 (URN)10.1386/hosp_00075_1 (DOI)001232095600002 ()2-s2.0-85194960148 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-07-29 Created: 2024-07-29 Last updated: 2024-08-26Bibliographically approved
Rossi, E., Thulemark, M. & Duncan, T. (2023). Employee perspectives on sex trafficking in Swedish chain hotels. Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 34(1), 45-58
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Employee perspectives on sex trafficking in Swedish chain hotels
2023 (English)In: Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, ISSN 1303-2917, E-ISSN 2156-6909, Vol. 34, no 1, p. 45-58Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper investigates chain hotel employees in Sweden and their ability to work against sex trafficking. Using ten semi-structured interviews, the research asks questions about employee's relationships with external stakeholders (the police, booking channels, non-profit organizations, and competitors) and macroenvironmental factors (political and legal factors, economic, socio-cultural and health). The findings highlight that lack of communication, cooperation and autonomy hinder chain hotel employee's ability to recognize and prevent sex trafficking. The paper concludes by emphasizing the need for better interdisciplinary engagement to help eliminate sex trafficking within the tourism and hospitality industries and reiterates the call for actionable outcomes that empower chain hotel employees to work with external stakeholders to find viable solutions to help stop sex trafficking.

Keywords
Sex trafficking, chain hotels, external stakeholders, macroenvironmental factors, Sweden
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-42878 (URN)10.1080/13032917.2023.2129723 (DOI)000865353000001 ()2-s2.0-85139670597 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-10-24 Created: 2022-10-24 Last updated: 2023-04-28Bibliographically approved
De Silva, J. & Thulemark, M. (2022). Can you break through a cement ceiling? – female chefs’ possibilities for a career in the Sri Lankan culinary industry. Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 33(3), 507-510
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Can you break through a cement ceiling? – female chefs’ possibilities for a career in the Sri Lankan culinary industry
2022 (English)In: Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, ISSN 1303-2917, E-ISSN 2156-6909, Vol. 33, no 3, p. 507-510Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Keywords
Female chefs gender inequality gender organizational theory hospitality industry
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-39365 (URN)10.1080/13032917.2021.2015696 (DOI)000744697800001 ()2-s2.0-85123426063 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-01-27 Created: 2022-01-27 Last updated: 2023-04-14Bibliographically approved
Moström Åberg, M. & Thulemark, M. (2022). Synen på kompetens inom besöksnäringen – går det att anta ett holistiskt perspektiv?. In: : . Paper presented at FALF-konferensen Kiruna, Sverige. 14-15 juni 2022..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Synen på kompetens inom besöksnäringen – går det att anta ett holistiskt perspektiv?
2022 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
National Category
Work Sciences Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-42856 (URN)
Conference
FALF-konferensen Kiruna, Sverige. 14-15 juni 2022.
Available from: 2022-10-18 Created: 2022-10-18 Last updated: 2023-03-17Bibliographically approved
Heldt Cassel, S., Duncan, T. & Thulemark, M. (2021). Hosts, Hospitality workers and Sex Trafficking in the Platform Economy. In: : . Paper presented at Nordic Symposium of Tourism and Hospitality 2021, Akureyri Iceland.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hosts, Hospitality workers and Sex Trafficking in the Platform Economy
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-44734 (URN)
Conference
Nordic Symposium of Tourism and Hospitality 2021, Akureyri Iceland
Available from: 2022-12-29 Created: 2022-12-29 Last updated: 2023-03-17Bibliographically approved
Thulemark, M., Heldt Cassel, S. & Duncan, T. (2021). Sharing is caring?: Hosts discussions on sex trafficking in AirBnB accommodation. Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sharing is caring?: Hosts discussions on sex trafficking in AirBnB accommodation
2021 (English)In: Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, ISSN 1303-2917, E-ISSN 2156-6909Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2021
National Category
Human Geography Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-38386 (URN)10.1080/13032917.2021.1980068 (DOI)000700870500001 ()2-s2.0-85115718882 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-10-06 Created: 2021-10-06 Last updated: 2023-04-14Bibliographically approved
Duncan, T., Thulemark, M. & Möller, P. (2020). Tourism, Seasonality and the Attraction of Youths. In: Lundmark, Carson & Eimermann (Ed.), Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas (pp. 373-392). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tourism, Seasonality and the Attraction of Youths
2020 (English)In: Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas / [ed] Lundmark, Carson & Eimermann, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 373-392Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Research Profiles 2009-2020, Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-35631 (URN)10.1007/978-981-15-6623-3 (DOI)978-981-15-6623-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-12-14 Created: 2020-12-14 Last updated: 2021-11-12Bibliographically approved
Heldt Cassel, S., Thulemark, M. & Duncan, T. (2017). Career paths and mobility in the Swedish hospitality sector.. Tourism Geographies, 20(1), 29-48
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Career paths and mobility in the Swedish hospitality sector.
2017 (English)In: Tourism Geographies, ISSN 1461-6688, E-ISSN 1470-1340, Vol. 20, no 1, p. 29-48Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

How career paths are interpreted and conceptualised by hospitality workers and industry representatives remains underexplored in current literature. In this paper, we highlight and discuss sector-specific and contextual factors that influence the possibility of establishing a career within the Swedish hospitality sector. The paper uses interviews with hotel managers, who describe and discuss motivations and choices made throughout their own careers and interviews with young (former) seasonal hospitality workers who describe and reflect on their future plans and work-life experience. Additional data are derived through observations at national seminars and meetings for representatives from the Swedish tourism and hospitality industry, where issues of competence and careers were discussed. The findings indicate that the shaping of career paths within the hospitality sector is influenced by two normative and discursively produced ‘truths’ about career paths in the hospitality sector: the importance of internal knowledge transfer and the importance of high mobility. These narratives impose expectations on individuals to be mobile, to change jobs frequently and to work their way from the bottom-up within the industry, and are based on a presumption of a diversified and dense local hospitality labour market. However, since the conditions are different due to contextual, geographical features of labour market size and structure, attractiveness of places, etc., these expectations are difficult to fulfil in places other than in larger urban areas. These normative assumptions of what a successful hospitality career is also have consequences for the development of the hospitality sector as external influences of competence from other sectors and higher education are not seen as valuable, which makes the sector self-contained and not open to external, potentially innovative knowledge.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, Karriärvägar i svensk besöksnäring; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, General Microdata Analysis - tourism
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-26758 (URN)10.1080/14616688.2017.1402946 (DOI)000427764600003 ()2-s2.0-85036524662 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Karriärvägar i svensk besöksnäring
Funder
The R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry (BFUF)
Available from: 2017-12-12 Created: 2017-12-12 Last updated: 2021-11-12Bibliographically approved
Thulemark, M. (2017). Community formation and sense of place: Seasonal tourism workers in rural Sweden. Population, Space and Place, 23(3), Article ID UNSP e2018.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Community formation and sense of place: Seasonal tourism workers in rural Sweden
2017 (English)In: Population, Space and Place, ISSN 1544-8444, E-ISSN 1544-8452, Vol. 23, no 3, article id UNSP e2018Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Seasonal tourism workers in the Swedish mountains can be conceptualised as members of occupational communities. For members of such a community, the dual relationship between the job and other members are important. However, a place perspective might be fruitful, as place amenities are expected drivers of job acceptance. By studying seasonal workers' relation to place, through the lens of their ‘membership’ of an occupational community, it is possible to capture both the individual sense of place and the group's shared sense of place. The former is highly important, as social relations among the workers are particularly significant. In this study, the conceptual framework of occupational communities is modified to better suit temporary and mobile workers in amenity-rich rural areas. The overall aim of this paper is to investigate how seasonal tourism employees can be analysed as an occupational community. Further, it studies the ways in which a particular tourism-related occupational community perceives and connects to its location, as well as the ways in which seasonal tourism workers perceive the role of place and community in their everyday lives and future plans. Hence, this article concludes that members of an occupational community have a dual attachment to place. This type of community could exist and move around without being affected by the geographical place, but the place has affective possibilities influencing the workers, and in an isolated rural place, the community has more space to grow stronger. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords
occupational community; sense of place; place attachment, mobility, toruism employment, rural Sweden
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, Att göra regionala skillnader till en styrka; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, Karriärvägar i svensk besöksnäring; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, General Microdata Analysis - tourism
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-21410 (URN)10.1002/psp.2018 (DOI)000400988400009 ()2-s2.0-84963766232 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2016-05-03 Created: 2016-05-03 Last updated: 2021-11-12Bibliographically approved
Cohen, S. A., Duncan, T. & Thulemark, M. (2015). Lifestyle Mobilities: The Crossroads of Travel, Leisure and Migration. Mobilities, 10(1), 155-172
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Lifestyle Mobilities: The Crossroads of Travel, Leisure and Migration
2015 (English)In: Mobilities, ISSN 1745-0101, E-ISSN 1745-011X, Vol. 10, no 1, p. 155-172Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines how the mobilities paradigm intersects with physically moving as an ongoing lifestyle choice. We conceptualise a lens of ‘lifestyle mobilities’ that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration. We demonstrate how contemporary lifestyle-led mobility patterns contribute to and illustrate a breakdown in conventional binary divides between work and leisure, and a destabilisation of concepts of ‘home’ and ‘away’. We unpack issues of identity construction, belonging and place attachment associated with sustained corporeal mobility, and conclude by suggesting avenues for the further study of lifestyle mobilities.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2015
Keywords
lifestyle, corporeal, mobility, identity, belonging
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, General Microdata Analysis - tourism
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-13088 (URN)10.1080/17450101.2013.826481 (DOI)000344555600009 ()2-s2.0-84924480547 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2013-10-01 Created: 2013-10-01 Last updated: 2021-11-12Bibliographically approved
Projects
Värdighet och anständighet på jobbet - den sällan sedda hotellstäderskan
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-3517-6650

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