Volunteer tourism represents an emerging tourism sector for vacationers who want to make a difference during their holidays. There is, however, little research on the nature and scope of this tourism sector. This study aims to illustrate the heterogeneous nature of this tourism sector\ud by 1) developing a typology of volunteer tourism organisations based upon their promotional image; 2) identifying the expectations and motivations of actual volunteer tourists; and 3) comparing these with the organisations' promotional images. Four groups of volunteer tourism organisations are identified and labelled - "research conservation holidays", "holiday conservation expeditions", "adventure conservation expeditions" and "community holiday expedition...
Volunteer tourists have become a critical human resource for many organisations in South Africa. Un...
Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for vario...
Volunteer tourism is often discursively constructed, overlapping a number of research disciplines in...
Volunteer tourism represents an emerging tourism sector for vacationers who want to make a differenc...
Volunteer tourism (VT) has recently been proposed as an alternative to ecotourism to link tourism an...
This paper focuses on volunteer tourism organisations that offer conservation expeditions, where vol...
One of the more recent forms of tourism to emerge from the continuing fragmentation of tourism into ...
The paper reviews the rapid growth of volunteer tourism, and discusses the changes that have taken p...
This exploratory study examines the guiding considerations which not-for-profit volunteer tourism se...
This exploratory study examines the guiding considerations which not-for-profit volunteer tourism se...
Although altruism is known to be a typical volunteer-trait, our respondents were motivated more or l...
This review analyzes the present status of 'volunteer tourism' as a contemporary phenomenon and fiel...
One of the more recent forms of tourism to emerge is what has become known as Volunteer Tourism, the...
This exploratory study examines the guiding considerations which not-for-profit volunteer tourism se...
Volunteers make contributions across the breadth of tourism, both as volunteer tourists and as volun...
Volunteer tourists have become a critical human resource for many organisations in South Africa. Un...
Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for vario...
Volunteer tourism is often discursively constructed, overlapping a number of research disciplines in...
Volunteer tourism represents an emerging tourism sector for vacationers who want to make a differenc...
Volunteer tourism (VT) has recently been proposed as an alternative to ecotourism to link tourism an...
This paper focuses on volunteer tourism organisations that offer conservation expeditions, where vol...
One of the more recent forms of tourism to emerge from the continuing fragmentation of tourism into ...
The paper reviews the rapid growth of volunteer tourism, and discusses the changes that have taken p...
This exploratory study examines the guiding considerations which not-for-profit volunteer tourism se...
This exploratory study examines the guiding considerations which not-for-profit volunteer tourism se...
Although altruism is known to be a typical volunteer-trait, our respondents were motivated more or l...
This review analyzes the present status of 'volunteer tourism' as a contemporary phenomenon and fiel...
One of the more recent forms of tourism to emerge is what has become known as Volunteer Tourism, the...
This exploratory study examines the guiding considerations which not-for-profit volunteer tourism se...
Volunteers make contributions across the breadth of tourism, both as volunteer tourists and as volun...
Volunteer tourists have become a critical human resource for many organisations in South Africa. Un...
Volunteer Tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for vario...
Volunteer tourism is often discursively constructed, overlapping a number of research disciplines in...