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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Volunteer tourism"”.
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Exploring Volunteer Tourism for Happiness in Fiji: A Decolonising Methodology Perspective
… research explores the meaning and role of volunteer tourism (VT) in shaping the happiness of Indigenous Fijians in rural communities. It examines how happiness is represented in tourism marketing and how it is conceptualised and experienced by iTaukei(Indigenous Fijian) communities. The …
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The Voluntourist Gaze: Framing volunteer tourism experiences as portrayed in Facebook
… paper is to begin to analyze the discourse of volunteer tourism. More specifically, a holistic examination of the hermeneutic circle of volunteer tourism that takes into consideration the messages being communicated by volunteer tourism organizations, the voluntourist's interpretation and …
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Volunteer tourism and development : an impact assessment of volunteer tourists from two organisations in Cape Town
Includes bibliographical references.
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Cross cultural understanding and volunteer tourism : the role of sending organisations in fostering cross-cultural understanding
Volunteer tourism has become a popular phenomenon worldwide and questions have been raised about the work that international volunteers do in Third World countries. Scholars have debated the possibility of a cross-cultural ‘misunderstanding’ developing between international volunteers and local …
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When the saints go marching in: an ethnography of volunteer tourism in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans
… study examines a new phenomenon in New Orleans tourism. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August 2005, droves of individuals and groups have come to New Orleans to help rebuild the city. Through conducting fifty interviews with these individuals from 2008-2009, the author traces the steps of …
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Volunteer Tourists' Intended Behavior Using the Revised Theory of Planned Behavior
Volunteer tourism as an alternative to mass tourism has grown significantly since the 1970s, sparking research interest in the subject. However, there is little research that has examined future potential volunteer tourists' various perceptions, needs and wants. The purpose of this study was to …
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Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa
… an exploration of host community perceptions of volunteer tourism in the context of a small community in the highlands of Guatemala called San Juan Comalapa. Voluntourism acts as a bridge between development aid and traditional tourism and therefore voluntourism organizations should act as both …
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Effects of a Voluntourism Experience on Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Environmental Sustainability and Science
The current study explored the impact of a volunteer tourism experience at a community-based conservation (CBC) organization on volunteer perceptions, attitudes, and values toward conservation, the environment, and science. The Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute (MRCI) is a CBC …
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… the religious branch of the billion-dollar volunteer-tourism industry. Rooted in 13 months of multi-sited ethnographic research, this dissertation examines evangelical STMs in the Dominican Republic as vehicles for evangelization and voluntarism in the contexts of postcolonial tourism and …
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The social construction of the New Zealand WWOOFing experience: A study of the world wide opportunities on organic farms programme
… an increasingly popular but little researched tourism- related phenomenon: the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) programme (Deville, Wearing, & McDonald, 2016a). The programme has been framed as an alternative form of tourism (McIntosh, 2009; McIntosh & Campbell, 2001; McIntosh …