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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"voluntourism"”.
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Motivation and socio-cultural sustainability of voluntourism
Volunteer tourism (voluntourism) has been described as an alternative form of tourism to mass tourism. It has been suggested that understanding the motivations of voluntourists might lead to a better understanding of the socio-cultural dimension of voluntourism sustainability. The aim of this …
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Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa
… 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 roles in the community. In this research I found that voluntourism organizations, particularly one organization …
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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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“It's not voluntourism”: unpacking young people's narrative claims to authenticity and differentiation in the international volunteer experience
This qualitative research study explores how a group of 27 British undergraduate students make meaning of their experiences as they prepare for, participate in, and reflect upon a short-term international volunteer excursion in Kenya. Through a thematic analysis of verbal and visual text …
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Vital Connections: A Multi-scalar Exploration of the Conservation Corridor Assemblage in Tanzania
… profit-making motivations of international voluntourism organisations and ideas of immutable nature – combine to result in a socially intractable and ecologically questionable corridor manifestation. My results show that corridors in Tanzania are not products of the straightforward …
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
"This dissertation examines practices, discourses, and imaginaries of biomedicine within hospital spaces produced by transnational processes in a rural Ethiopian community. I examine how Ethiopian and volunteer American physicians navigate intersections of globalized standards and technologies with …
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A Comparison of Profiles and Expenditures between Volunteer and Leisure Tourists for the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area
<p>This research compared the expenditure patterns, profiles, and trip characteristics of volunteer and leisure tourists in New Orleans. Survey research methods were used to obtain a sample of voluntourists that was compared to a leisure tourist sample obtained from secondary data. Visitors’ …
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Is international service-learning win-win? A case study of an engineering partnership
Given the tormented history of development projects around the globe and the fact that global service learning and engineering-for-development often engages students in development interventions, it is critically important to explore the impact of global service learning projects and partnerships …
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O impacto das relações interculturais nas crenças e atitudes dos viajantes relativamente ao país e à sociedade visitados : estudo de caso : a brigada agroecológica e Guamá, Cuba, organizada pela ONGD SODePAZ
A presente investigação pretende dar mais um contributo para melhor se entender a influência das relações interculturais para a compreensão entre os povos, no contexto da interação turística. Parte-se de um quadro teórico que cruzou reflexão de áreas como a Psicologia Social, o Turismo e a …