International volunteer tourism :
International volunteer tourism : integrating travellers and communities /
Stephen Leslie Wearing and Nancy Gard McGehee, [editors].
- 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) : illustrations, charts
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Alternative Tourism Experiences -- Community Development in Volunteer Tourism Destinations -- The Volunteer Tourism Organization -- Volunteer Tourists: Why Do They Do It? -- Volunteer Tourism Projects: A Proposed Mechanism to Improve Working with Local Communities -- Volunteer Tourism: An Existential Perspective -- Communities as More than 'Other' in Cross-cultural Volunteer Tourism -- Looking at the Future of Volunteer Tourism: Commodification, Altruism and Accreditation.
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This book revisits and further develops the topics and themes covered in Volunteer Tourism: Experiences That Make a Difference, written over 10 years ago. Concentrating on the experience of the volunteer tourist and the host community, this new edition builds on the view of volunteer tourism as a positive and sustainable form of tourism to examine a broader spectrum of behaviours and experiences and consider critically where the volunteer tourist experience both compliments and collides with host communities, using multiple case studies. The book has nine chapters and a subject index.
Volunteer tourism.
Tourism--International cooperation.
Culture and tourism.
Ecotourism.
Sustainable tourism.
Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
Tourism and Travel.
Alternative tourism.
Host guest relations.
International tourism.
Sustainable tourism.
Volunteers.
Electronic books.
GV156.5.V64 / I68 2013eb
338.4/791
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Alternative Tourism Experiences -- Community Development in Volunteer Tourism Destinations -- The Volunteer Tourism Organization -- Volunteer Tourists: Why Do They Do It? -- Volunteer Tourism Projects: A Proposed Mechanism to Improve Working with Local Communities -- Volunteer Tourism: An Existential Perspective -- Communities as More than 'Other' in Cross-cultural Volunteer Tourism -- Looking at the Future of Volunteer Tourism: Commodification, Altruism and Accreditation.
Access limited to subscribing institution.
This book revisits and further develops the topics and themes covered in Volunteer Tourism: Experiences That Make a Difference, written over 10 years ago. Concentrating on the experience of the volunteer tourist and the host community, this new edition builds on the view of volunteer tourism as a positive and sustainable form of tourism to examine a broader spectrum of behaviours and experiences and consider critically where the volunteer tourist experience both compliments and collides with host communities, using multiple case studies. The book has nine chapters and a subject index.
Volunteer tourism.
Tourism--International cooperation.
Culture and tourism.
Ecotourism.
Sustainable tourism.
Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
Tourism and Travel.
Alternative tourism.
Host guest relations.
International tourism.
Sustainable tourism.
Volunteers.
Electronic books.
GV156.5.V64 / I68 2013eb
338.4/791