Volunteer Tourism: Effective Development Tool? Or Feel Good Travel?

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Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Dez 2011, 2011

3846554596 / 9783846554593

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As a branch of alternative tourism, volunteer tourism or 'voluntourism' is responsible for introducing vacationers to parts of developing countries not usually seen through traditional forms of tourism. Broadly defined, voluntourism consists of 'Those tourists who, for various reasons, volunteer in an organized way to undertake holidays that might involve aiding or alleviating the material poverty in some groups in society.'. These travellers interact with local and community development organizations in ways said to capacitate the organizations and contribute to development as a whole. This raises important questions about the implications of inserting unskilled and unprepared volunteers into what is said to be development work. Drawing on the development framework set out by various community development theories, and using a case study of American volunteer tourist groups working in Guatemala; this manuscript examines claims that short-term, unskilled volunteers can engage in local development work and unpacks many of the issues associated with this new trend. 112 pp. Englisch.…

Title
Volunteer Tourism: Effective Development Tool? Or Feel Good Travel?
Author
Camaro West
Publisher
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Dez 2011
Publication year
2011
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Language
English
ISBN 10
3846554596
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9783846554593
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185 grams
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220x150x7 mm

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