Simone Grabowski

TL;DR: The concept and practice of volunteer tourism has offered a different outcome to conventional mass tourism in that it is an approach that recognises the inter-dependence of tourism on the host community culture and ecology as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This article examined the motives that drive young people to participate in some form of volunteer or humanitarian activities while on a leisure trip and the benefits and impacts that the volunteer tourists derive from the experience on their return.

TL;DR: For at least the last 150 years there has been recognition that the value one ascribes to nature is socially constructed as discussed by the authors, and the early history of the national parks movement in the United States was predicated on notions of the wilderness frontier and evolving urban sentiments over the restorative value of rural zones.

TL;DR: A follow-up paper to Grabowski and Wearing's (2008) paper which introduced the idea that volunteer tourists (VT) experience a kind of re-entry shock which may be predicted by a number of variables.