ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to develop that intention in relation to social and cultural geographies of leisure and tourism. The chapter begins by summarising some of the discussions of spaces of sex and sexes of space that took place in relation to geographies of leisure and tourism. The chapter seeks to develop discussion of three particular types of urban space that have been central to the contestation of heterosexual domination of leisure and tourism landscapes. Over the last ten years, however, it has become possible to identify three distinct types of tourist space in the form of accommodation marketed specifically at women: tailored accommodation for business women, accommodation marketed at lesbians and offered within mixed-sex gay hotels, and women-only accommodation. Moreover, previous feminist research within leisure studies makes few references to lesbian's leisure. Similarly, in tourism and hospitality studies there are few references to difference and diversity among women and the hotel is frequently identified as a site of heterosexual display.
