Examining Barriers and Building Resiliency for Rural Women Entrepreneurs

Rural women entrepreneurs often face significant barriers that hinder their business success and growth. These challenges include limited access to financial resources, inadequate infrastructure, and lack of supportive networks or mentorship opportunities. Additionally, societal and cultural norms may restrict their entrepreneurial activities and access to markets. Building resiliency for rural women entrepreneurs involves addressing these barriers through targeted interventions. By creating and enabling environments that address these specific needs, rural women can strengthen their entrepreneurial ventures, foster economic independence, and contribute to the broader community's development. Examining Barriers and Building Resiliency for Rural Women Entrepreneurs discusses the multifaceted challenges faced by women in rural areas seeking to start and grow their own businesses. It explores strategies for overcoming these barriers, including the development of targeted support programs, enhanced access to capital, and the creation of robust networks and mentorship opportunities. Covering topics such as digital advancements, hospitality and tourism, and work-life balance, this book is an essential resource for policymakers, government officials, community leaders, local government representatives, business development specialists, mentors, academicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, 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 is Associate Editor of Journal of Tourismology (E-ISSN: 2459-1939). She is a member of Journal of Journal of EuroMED Business and Family Business Management and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal as Editorial Review Boar Journal of Family Business Management. She is a member of Journal of Small Business and Entreprise Development as Editorial Advisory Board. She is also in Editorial Review Board of the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal in Springer Nature. She is a member of Economy and Contemporary Society Journal as Advisory Board of, (ISSN is: 2529-1947). She is also in Advisory Board of International Journal of Business and Globalisation. She is also handling editor of EuroMed Journal of Management, International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, International Journal of Work Innovation, 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.