Volunteer tourism: A review
TL;DR: A review of the current state of "volunteer tourism" can be found in this article, with a focus on the volunteer tourism experience itself with emphasis on the role of the tourism organization and the community.
About: This article is published in Tourism Management.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 300 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.
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TL;DR: A Consumers' Republic (Cohen 2003) is an overview of the political and social impact of mass consumption on the United States from the 1920s to the present day as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Historians and social scientists analyzing the contemporary world unfortunately have too little contact and hence miss some of the ways that their interests overlap and the research of one field might benefit another. I am, therefore, extremely grateful that the Journal of Consumer Research has invited me to share with its readers an overview of my recent research on the political and social impact of the flourishing of mass consumption on twentieth-century America. What follows is a summary of my major arguments, enough to entice you, I hope, to read A Consumers' Republic (Cohen 2003), in which I elaborate on these themes. Although this essay is by necessity schematic, the book itself is filled with extensive historical evidence and is heavily illustrated with period images. In tracing the growing importance of mass consumption to the American economy, polity, culture, and social landscape from the 1920s to the present, I in many ways establish the historical context for your research into contemporary consumer behavior and markets. I hope you will …
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TL;DR: This paper might be the first attempt to present a comprehensive literature review on different types of big data in tourism research, and facilitates a thorough understanding of this sunrise research and offers valuable insights into its future prospects.
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TL;DR: This article evaluated bibliometric studies in tourism, depicts emerging themes, and offers critical discussions for theory development and future research, concluding that paucity still exists, particularly in relational bibliometrics in tourism.
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TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed tourism research published between 1995 and 2013 to examine the empirical research on nature-based tourism's ability to foster long-term stewardship behavior among travelers.
Abstract: Although nature-based tourism is often promoted as benefiting local destinations through income generation, employment, and direct conservation support, it is also believed to influence tourists’ environmentally friendly attitudes, knowledge, and ultimately their behavior. Yet, few studies have empirically documented these outcomes, and those that do are inconsistent in the variables measured and the time frame analyzed. This paper examines the empirical research on nature-based tourism's ability to foster long-term stewardship behavior among travelers by conducting a systematic review of peer-reviewed tourism research published between 1995 and 2013. This search, focused on literature addressing changes in tourists’ environmentally related knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and actual behaviors, yielded just 30 empirical studies. Outcomes related to new environmental knowledge were commonly reported in these studies, but findings related to environmental attitudes and behaviors were inconsistent. Few stud...
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...Insight may also come from scholarship on voluntourism, where visitors may move from being tourists to also undertaking meaningful conservation or research activities while in the tourism site (Wearing & McGehee, 2013)....
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TL;DR: A critical literature review of corporate social responsibility research in both general management and hospitality management literature is presented in this paper, which discusses trends, commonalities and inconsistencies to better understand the state of contemporary scholarship, and it calls for a context-specific conceptual engagement with the phenomenon.
Abstract: Purpose
This paper is a critical literature review of corporate social responsibility (CSR) research in both general management and hospitality management literature. This paper aims to discuss trends, commonalities and inconsistencies to better understand the state of contemporary scholarship, and it calls for a context-specific conceptual engagement with the phenomenon.
Design/methodology/approach
Systematic literature review, noting and critiquing a general tendency towards measurement of financial and other internal benefit impacts.
Findings
Hospitality management is well-positioned to evaluate the opportunities and challenges of CSR; yet, research has uncritically adopted the instrumental emphasis on assessing processes, perceptions and private profitability from the general management literature, without engaging on a contextually specific and/or theoretical level.
Research limitations/implications
CSR research is abundant and therefore difficult to summarise in one paper. The primarily Anglo-American and Asian contextual bias is reflected in this review.
Practical implications
Consistently inconsistent results challenge the portability of financial impact studies. Studies are needed to re-evaluate the concept of CSR, as it pertains to hospitality and measure the effectiveness of CSR activities relative to context and resource availability.
Social implications
Further research into the scope of CSR in hospitality management, with an emphasis on recuperating social value, would lead to widespread positive social implications.
Originality/value
This critical review offers a new perspective on CSR in the hospitality literature and industry, calling for a reconsideration of the concept in context, and formulates a working definition.
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...…ranked, but agreed base standard journals to be consulted through major online databases including ScienceDirect (Li, 2008), EBSCOhost (Denizci and Mohammed, 2015), Google Scholar (Zeng and Ryan, 2012), and the respective authors’ host university journal databases (Wearing and McGehee, 2013)....
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