International Volunteer Tourism: Integrating Travellers and Communities

Synopsis

This Book Revisits And Further Develops The Topics And Themes Covered In Volunteer Tourism: Experiences That Make A Difference, Written Over 10 Years Ago. Concentrating On The Experience Of The Volunteer Tourist And The Host Community, This New Edition Builds On The View Of Volunteer Tourism As A Positive And Sustainable Form Of Tourism To Examine A Broader Spectrum Of Behaviours And Experiences And Consider Critically Where The Volunteer Tourist Experience Both Compliments And Collides With Host Communities, Using Multiple Case Studies. The Book Has Nine Chapters And A Subject Index. 1. Introduction -- 2. Alternative Tourism Experiences -- 3. Community Development In Volunteer Tourism Destinations -- 4. Volunteer Tourism Organisation -- 5. Types Of Volunteer Tourism Organisation -- 6. Volunteer Tourism Projects: A Proposed Mechanism To Improve Working With Local Communities -- 7. Volunteer Tourism: An Existential Perspective -- 8. Communities As More Than 'other' In Cross-cultural Volunteer Tourism -- 9. Looking At The Future Of Volunteer Tourism; Commodification, Altruism And Accreditation. Stephen Leslie Wearing And Nancy Gard Mcgehee, [editors]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.