Tourism and Family Violence

Critical issues facing tourism

Elisa Zentveld

ISBN: 9781917433723 HBK; 9781917433730 PBK; 9781917433747 PDF; 9781917433754 EPUB
DOI: 10.23912/9781917433723-6205

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Family violence has been recognised as a global public health pandemic. Incidents spike during peak holiday periods, yet the relationship between family violence and tourism remains largely unexplored. Holidays can represent a time of increased risk for those who live with family violence. Travel can also impact family violence victim/survivors through ongoing risk and/or trauma that can remain with them for life.

This book captures a range of critical issues related to the tourism and family violence nexus – natural disasters, technology-facilitated abuse, mental disorders, media framing, war, child abduction and LGBTQIA+ youth. Tourism and Family Violence: Critical issues facing tourism offers a holistic perspective, recognising that family violence can be perpetrated against females, males and same-sex couples.

Tourism and Family Violence: Critical issues facing tourism is a pioneering academic volume that addresses a significant gap in tourism scholarship. This ground-breaking volume brings together interdisciplinary insights from globally recognised experts.

Essential reading for academics and students in tourism, criminology, social work and psychology, as well as policymakers and government agencies seeking evidence-based, interdisciplinary approaches.

Edited by Elisa Zentveld, Professor of Social Justice at Federation University, Australia.

Publication: August 2026

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Ch 1 Introduction (Elisa Zentveld); Ch 2 Family violence and tourism among children: A viewpoint on Bangladesh (Shimul Chowdhury and Hiran Roy); Ch 3 Family violence among LGBTQIA+ youth 26 (Alex Abranovich, Nicole Elkinton, and Michael Silberberg); Ch 4 War, displacement, family disintegration and the loss of safe mobility: A psychosocial framework with reference to the Gaza Strip (Basel El-Khodary and Muthanna Samara); Ch 5 Healing and restoring war-affected families: Family violence prevention, psychosocial recovery and restorative mobility (Muthanna Samara and Basel El-Khodary); Ch 6 Flight to safety: How the Australian travel industry intersects with the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention (Gina Masterton); Ch 7 Tourism as a Tool for Emotional Relief: Addressing family violence in Iran’s legal and cultural context (Sara Alaviyeh and Hiran Roy); Ch 8 Invisible chains in motion: Technology-facilitated family violence and the overlooked tourism context (Nadia Faisal, Mehmood Chadhar, and Smareen Mahmood); Ch 9 Tourism collapse and domestic violence in Bali: A longitudinal study of crisis, inequality, and resilience (2020–2025) (Rodney Westerlaken); Ch10 Family and Domestic Violence in the News (Elisa Zentveld and Alan Labas); Ch 11 Media framing of family violence and tourism (Elisa Zentveld and Alan Labas); Ch 12 The relationship between family violence, mental disorders, and tourism (Elisa Zentveld); Ch 13 A walk out on the pier and VFR travel (Elisa Zentveld); Index

About the authors

Edited by Elisa Zentveld, Professor of Social Justice at Federation University, Australia