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Journeys of Discovery in Volunteer Tourism
International Case Study Perspectives
Hardback
February 2008
9781845933807
More details
- Publisher
CABI - Published
25th February 2008 - ISBN 9781845933807
- Language English
- Pages 272 pp.
- Size 6.875" x 9.75"
$169.60
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.
Part One: 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 Organisation
4) Lessons from Cuba: A Volunteer Army of Ambassadors
5) "Make a Difference!": The Role of Sending Organizations in Volunteer Tourism
Part Two: Inward Journeys: Motivations, Needs and the Self
6) The Volunteer's Journey through Leisure to the Self
7) Gibbons in their Midst? Conservation Volunteers' Motivations at the Gibbons Rehabilitation Project, Phuket, Thailand
8) Discovering Self and Discovering Others through the Taita Discovery Centre Volunteer Tourism Program, 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 Between Volunteer Tourism
Part Three: Journeys at the Edge - Overlaps and Ambiguities
12) All for a Good Cause: The Blurred Boundaries of Volunteering and Tourism
13) Volunteers as Host and Guest in Museums
14) Journeys for Experience: The Experiences of Volunteer Tourists in and 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 the Transformation Beyond the One-Way
16) Mediation of Volunteer Tourism Alternatives: Guidebook Representations of Travel Experiences in Aboriginal Australia