International volunteer tourism : integrating travellers and communities /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: 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.; Volunteers.; Electronic books.
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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 po...

Table of Contents:

• 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.