Women's empowerment has been prioritised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) recently, in line with the Saudi Vision 2030; albeit, women are still underrepresented in tourism industry. However, if robust women's empowerment is consolidated into planning and implementation processes, tourism can act as a vehicle for encouraging gender parity. This study examines the direct impact of women's empowerment (psychologically, politically, and socially) on sustainable tourism development (STD) and the indirect impact through tourism involvement. A total of 1000 women involved in the tourism industry in KSA filled out self-administrated questionnaires, analyzed using SPSS™ and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS. The results suggest that tourism involvement partially mediates the relationship between psychological and political empowerment and STD. Nonetheless, it fully mediates the relationship between social empowerment and STD. Several implications of the results for both policy-makers, tourism planners and tourism scholars are discussed.

根据《沙特阿拉伯2030年愿景》，最近在沙特阿拉伯王国（KSA）将赋予妇女权力作为优先事项；尽管妇女在旅游业中的人数仍然不足。但是，如果将强有力的妇女赋权纳入规划和实施过程，旅游业就可以成为鼓励性别平等的工具。这项研究考察了增强妇女权能（在心理上，政治上和社会上）对可持续旅游业发展（STD）的直接影响，以及通过旅游业参与而产生的间接影响。共有1000名参与KSA旅游业的女性填写了自我管理的问卷，并使用SPSS™进行了分析和使用AMOS的结构方程模型（SEM）。结果表明，旅游业的参与部分地调节了心理和政治授权与性病之间的关系。尽管如此，它充分调解了社会赋权与性病之间的关系。讨论了结果对政策制定者，旅游计划者和旅游学者的一些启示。