Journeys of Discovery in Volunteer Tourism ：International Case Study Perspectives

Publication subTitle ：International Case Study Perspectives

Author： Lyons   K.D.; Wearing   S.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9781845933814

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781845933807

Subject： F590.7 各类型旅游

Keyword： Tourism Industry Sport and Leisure Industries

Language： ENG

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Description

The fast-growing phenomenon of volunteer tourism encompasses a diverse range of activities, from conserving environments to working with host communities to alleviate poverty. However, understanding the complex relationship between volunteering and tourism requires a wide analytical framework. This book provides a broad and valuable insight into how volunteer tourism is growing and developing. Theoretical and empirical case studies from leading researchers in the field explore the experiences of the volunteer tourist and the power relationships between volunteers and host communities and commercial, non-commercial and government entities involved in developing and supporting volunteer tourism. The ambiguous and contested intersections between volunteering, travel and alternative tourism as a foundation for considering the future of volunteer tourism are also examined.

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Contents

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Journeys Beyond Otherness: Communities, Culture and Power

1 Volunteer Tourism as Alternative Tourism: Journeys Beyond Otherness

2 ‘Pettin’ the Critters’: Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Volunteers and the Voluntoured in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA, and Tijuana, Mexico

3 Volunteering Tourism Knowledge: a Case from the United Nations World Tourism Organization

4 Lessons from Cuba: a Volunteer Army of Ambassadors

5 ‘Make a Difference!’: the Role of Sending Organizations in Volunteer Tourism

Part II: Inward Journeys: Motivations, Needs and the Self

6 The Volunteer’s Journey Through Leisure into the Self

7 Gibbons in Their Midst? Conservation Volunteers’ Motivations at the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, Phuket, Thailand

8 Discovering Self and Discovering Others Through the Taita Discovery Centre Volunteer Tourism Programme, Kenya

9 Negotiated Selves: Exploring the Impact of Local–Global Interactions on Young Volunteer Travellers

10 Opening the Gap: the Motivation of Gap Year Travellers to Volunteer in Latin America

11 The Dynamics Behind Volunteer Tourism

Part III: Journeys at the Edge: Overlaps and Ambiguities

12 All for a Good Cause? The Blurred Boundaries of Volunteering and Tourism

13 Volunteers as Hosts and Guests in Museums

14 Journeys for Experience: the Experiences of Volunteer Tourists in an Indigenous Community in a Developed Nation – a Case Study of New Zealand

15 Absences in the Volunteer Tourism Phenomenon: the Right to Travel, Solidarity Tours and Transformation Beyond the One-way

16 Mediating Volunteer Tourism Alternatives: Guidebook Representations of Travel Experiences in Aboriginal Australia

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