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Volunteer tourism and intercultural exchange: Exploring the 'Other' in the experience
Stephen Wearing,Simone Grabowski +1 more
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The article was published on 2010-12-14 and is currently open access. It has received 29 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism.read more
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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.
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Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the challenges of evaluating volunteer tourism and look towards possibilities for rethinking the ways in which the phenomenon is conceptualized, and argue that the volunteer tourism industry must respond to criticisms from academics and the media and move towards conscious choices that reframe volunteer tourism away from development aid towards intercultural mutuality and decommodification.
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Catalysts for transformative learning in community-based ecotourism
TL;DR: In this article, an experiential CBET curriculum is identified which is centred on ecotourists' nature, adventure and cultural experiences, and three empirical case studies of CBET in Southeast Asia are used to provide context to the discussion.
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The impact of a volunteer tourism experience, in South Africa, on the tourist: The influence of age, gender, project type and length of stay
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the influence of age, gender, project type and length of stay on the impacts of a volunteer tourism experience on the volunteers' personality traits and found that the impacts measured were changes to volunteers" personality traits.
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Volunteer Tourism as a Transformative Experience: A Mixed Methods Empirical Study:
TL;DR: In an effort to combine tourism with pro-social giving and personal development, more and more people choose to go abroad on volunteer tourism trips as discussed by the authors and explore the potential transformational influ...
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