Empowering Women Through Rural Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship

Empowering women entrepreneurs in rural communities is vital for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It promotes gender equality by providing women with equal access to economic opportunities and decision-making roles, enabling them to drive community development and alleviate poverty. Digital tools and skills allow rural women to access broader markets and innovate solutions to local challenges, fostering economic growth and environmental sustainability. Women entrepreneurs address critical needs like education, healthcare, and agriculture while adopting eco-friendly practices that support climate action. By supporting rural women entrepreneurship in the digital age, communities can advance toward a more equitable and sustainable future. Empowering Women Through Rural Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship emphasizes the importance of rural women entrepreneurship and uncovers the potential in this area, with a specific focus on contributing to the achievement of SDGs. Through real-world examples and practical strategies, it highlights how empowering women with resources, skills, and technology can bridge gender gaps and accelerate progress toward global SDGs. Covering topics such as digital tools, misogyny, and women's studies, this book is an excellent resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders and managers, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and more.

Gül Erkol Bayram received is PhD in Tourism Management from “Sakarya University (Turkey). She is Associate Professor in Tourism Management (Bachelor and Master Degree), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Sinop University, Turkey. She’s teaching and consultancy areas include tourism management, organizational behavior, women empowerment, entrepreneurship, cultural tourism, hotel/lodging management, cross-cultural management. Her research areas include women empowerment, sustainability and green practices, strategy implementation, knowledge management, hotel/lodging management, crisis, management, destination marketing, information technology and developing countries, network analysis. She chaired/co-chaired and served on numerous Master and PhD dissertation and master thesis committees. Erkol Bayram has also worked as a professional tour guide in the tourism sector. She has many book chapters and articles in the international arena and published her books as an editor in the national arena from Emerald, IGI Global, Apple Academic Press. She has been invited for more than 100+ many talks/lectures/ panel discussions by different Universities and countries as Indıa, Pakistan, Indonesia, Romania, Crotia, Philippines, UK, USA etc. She is member of several editorial board of international tourism journals. She has more than 17 years tourism experience and worked with different positions as professional tour guide, hotel agent, guest relations manager, travel agency consultant in Turkey and Restaurant Guest Relations in Spain. She is also the member of International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism, and Şanliurfa Culture Education Art and Research Foundation . She has ongoing project related ecotourism, cultural tourism, women entrepreneurship.

Ali Turan Bayram is currently working as Head of Department and an Associate Professor in the Department of Tour Guiding at the Tourism Faculty of the University of Sinop in Sinop, Turkey. Dr. Bayram has extensive experience as an internal trainer and teacher in the field of tour guiding. He holds a doctorate in Tourism Management from Gazi University, Turkey, with her dissertation focusing on service quality in Turkey. Her expertise lies in tourism, social media, tour guiding, tourism recreation. As an accomplished editor, he has contributed numerous book chapters in the international arena and has published books as an editor in the national sphere. Notably, he has edited many books such as tourism research under Çizgi Publishing.

Melike Sak completed undergraduate education in Sinop University, School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Tourist Guidance, the author her master's degree in Selcuk University, Institute of Social Sciences, Travel Management and Tour Guiding Department. The author has participated in national and international congresses. The author, has presented national and international papers in various tourism fields. The author has an international book chapter, national and international papers and articles. She has also many book chapters under the Emarald, Apple Academic Press, IGI Global also. The author has various studies: sustainable tourism, health tourism, cultural heritage tourism, ecotourism, event tourism, event tourism, tourism guidance and she has participated in national and international congresses. On the other hand, the author, who has worked on important issues of recent years such as women in the tourism sector, Covid-19 and artificial intelligence, has written book chapters in this field. The authors, who participated in many national and international conferences and symposiums, have studies in many fields of tourism and tourist guidance.