Add to ORKGWithin the Australian tourism industry, the prominent use of volunteers occurs in museums and art museums, botanic gardens, zoological parks and festivals and events. Large museums in urban environments, in particular, are heavily reliant on the continuous contribution of a large number of leisure seeking volunteers. These volunteers come from a wide cross section of the community but little is known about their values and commitment. Values are an important construct that offer insights into human belief and behaviour. In the workplace a person's values can influence job satisfaction, turnover and commitment. If museums can understand what volunteers' value in relation to their work then they can place volunteers in situations which will n...
Although altruism is known to be a typical volunteer-trait, our respondents were motivated more or l...
The number of tourist railways and museums is increasing throughout the world. With many of these at...
Volunteers make contributions across the breadth of tourism, both as volunteer tourists and as volun...
Museums and art museums make a significant contribution to the tourism and leisure industries. In Au...
This thesis investigates how volunteers are organized at visitor attractions. It focuses on museums ...
The value of volunteering is well documented, and though there is a readily available recruitment po...
This paper proposes two arguments: one, that volunteering in museums can be considered an extension ...
This paper considers the role that volunteers have in making a museum a hospitable place for visitor...
The growing number of volunteers in the heritage sector indicates a desire for a leisure experience ...
In recent decades, the heritage sector has become increasingly precarious amid the rise of austerity...
This research explored the demographics of the volunteers who work in three cultural tourism attract...
The nature of volunteerism and its significant role in sustaining heritage organisations is a perenn...
Volunteers play a pivotal role in the tourism sector, contributing invaluable human resources to mus...
Volunteer involvement in visitor centres has received little attention by tourism researchers despit...
This paper considers the role that volunteers have in making a museum a hospitable place for visitor...
Although altruism is known to be a typical volunteer-trait, our respondents were motivated more or l...
The number of tourist railways and museums is increasing throughout the world. With many of these at...
Volunteers make contributions across the breadth of tourism, both as volunteer tourists and as volun...
Museums and art museums make a significant contribution to the tourism and leisure industries. In Au...
This thesis investigates how volunteers are organized at visitor attractions. It focuses on museums ...
The value of volunteering is well documented, and though there is a readily available recruitment po...
This paper proposes two arguments: one, that volunteering in museums can be considered an extension ...
This paper considers the role that volunteers have in making a museum a hospitable place for visitor...
The growing number of volunteers in the heritage sector indicates a desire for a leisure experience ...
In recent decades, the heritage sector has become increasingly precarious amid the rise of austerity...
This research explored the demographics of the volunteers who work in three cultural tourism attract...
The nature of volunteerism and its significant role in sustaining heritage organisations is a perenn...
Volunteers play a pivotal role in the tourism sector, contributing invaluable human resources to mus...
Volunteer involvement in visitor centres has received little attention by tourism researchers despit...
This paper considers the role that volunteers have in making a museum a hospitable place for visitor...
Although altruism is known to be a typical volunteer-trait, our respondents were motivated more or l...
The number of tourist railways and museums is increasing throughout the world. With many of these at...
Volunteers make contributions across the breadth of tourism, both as volunteer tourists and as volun...