International volunteer tourism : integrating travellers and communities / Stephen Leslie Wearing and Nancy Gard McGehee, [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wearing, Stephen.

McGehee, Nancy Gard, 1963-

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Volunteer tourism.

Tourism--International cooperation.

Tourism.

Culture and tourism.

Ecotourism.

Sustainable tourism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 172 pages)

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Boston : CAB International, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wearing, S.L. International Volunteer Tourism : Integrating Travellers and Communities.

ISBN:

9781845937027

1845937023

1299975151

9781299975156

OCLC:

858762964

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.