The Challenges Women Face In The Provision Of Hospitality Services In Kenya: Critical Literature Review

Abstract

The main aim of this paper was to carry out a critical literature review on research that have been carried out on the Challenges Women Face in the Provision of Hospitality Services in Kenya: Critical Literature Review. We first, present the general introduction on women participation in informal hospitality enterprises in Kenya, theoretical perspectives, discussions on the recent studies on women participation in enterprises, recent global and regional studies on challenges women face in hospitality enterprises, recent studies on challenges women face in hospitality enterprises in Kenya. Next, we present the conclusion and analysis of the recent literature review. Finally, we discuss directions for future research and conclude the paper. Most of the research on women entrepreneurship is on the general business carried out by women and the researchers concentrating in countries like; United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, Spain, Australia, China, France, India, Malaysia, Iran, Pakistan and Ghana. Despite the interest, we find that most of the literature on women entrepreneurship reports empirical studies primarily from the west. There are very few studies that explore this phenomenon in a developing economy context and there is a need for research on women entrepreneurs in developing countries as cited by (Gundry et al., 2002; Goyal and Yadav, 2014) and more so in the hospitality industry being a fast growing industry. This will create more insight into in expanding the scope of research on the challenges affecting women entrepreneurs in hospitality industry in the developing economies in terms of context as well as the content