عنوان

Volunteer tourism :

(Number (ISBN

0851995330

(Number (ISBN

0851997651

(Number (ISBN

9780851995335

(Number (ISBN

9780851997650

Erroneous ISBN

0851995330

Erroneous ISBN

9780851997650

Number

b743487

Title Proper

Volunteer tourism :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

experiences that make a difference /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Wearing.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

CABI,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-191) and indexes.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Alternative Tourism Experiences -- Volunteer Tourism Experiences -- Exploring the Experience -- The Volunteer Tourist's Experience : Self and Identity -- The Site, Social Value and the Self -- Developing the Self Through the Volunteer Tourism Experience -- The Impacts on Communities : Moving Beyond the Passing Gaze -- Volunteer Tourism : Moving on from the Empty Meeting Ground.

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Text of Note

This book provides an overview of the phenomenon of volunteer tourism, its sources and its development as a concept; and focuses on the potential positive social and environmental benefits of volunteer tourism, and the prerequisites for a successful experience. Chapter 2 examines alternative tourism experiences and how tourists themselves construct them, then conceptualizes the concept of volunteer tourism within those boundaries of alternative tourism and, subsequently, mass tourism. Chapter 3 examines one of the 60 environmental projects undertaken by Youth Challenge International (YCI) between 1991 and 1995, which provides a microsocial context for the examination of the Santa Elena Rainforest Reserve experience of YCI participants. Chapter 4 presents the data obtained from the in-depth interviews with participants from Australia, over the 3 years of the Costa Rica project. Chapter 5 examines the elements of ecotourism, volunteerism and serious leisure in conjunction with the themes that emerged from the participant's definitions of the experience and links them to related information in the interviews and the literature. Chapter 6 focuses on the centrality of the natural environment. Chapter 7 explores how volunteer tourism experiences actually contribute to the development of self, framing the experience in the very words of the participants. Chapter 8 examines the growing convergence of aims between local communities and the tourism sector. Chapter 9 argues that the alternative tourism experiences should not be reduced to a dialogic model of impossible realities related to dialectal materialism. Instead, its understanding should be grounded in human interactions and the concrete social reality in which it takes place.

Title

Volunteer tourism.

Volunteer tourism.

Leisure Activities.

Alternative tourism.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.

Community involvement.

Conservation.

Ecotourism.

History.

Motivation.

Sociology of tourism.

Sustainability.

Tourism organizations.

Volunteer tourism.

Volunteers.

BUS-- 081000

Number

380.8

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Edition

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Book number

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Book Number

Wearing, Stephen.

Date of Transaction

20201204035934.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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