International Volunteer Tourism. Stephen Wearing
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Название: International Volunteer Tourism

Автор: Stephen Wearing

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежная деловая литература

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isbn: 9781789244137

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СКАЧАТЬ Introduction

       Conservation Volunteers Australia

       Mobility International USA

       Youth Challenge International

       5 Volunteer Tourists: Why Do They Do It?

       Simone Grabowski

       Introduction

       Motivation Theory

       Theorizing Volunteer Tourist Motivation

       Conclusion

       6 Volunteer Tourism Projects: A Proposed Mechanism to Improve Working with Local Communities

       Introduction

       Processes

       Case Study 1: Taita Discovery Centre in Kenya

       Andrew Lepp

       Case Study 2: Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, Phuket, Thailand

       Sue Broad and John Jenkins

       Case Study 3: Lessons From Cuba: a Volunteer Army of Ambassadors

       Rochelle Spencer

       Conclusion

       7 Volunteer Tourism: An Existential Perspective

       Matthew McDonald and John Wilson

       Introduction

       Authenticity in Tourism Studies

       Existential Authenticity

       Authenticity, Voluntarist Ethics and Tourism

       Conclusion

       8 Communities as More than ‘Other’ in Cross-cultural Volunteer Tourism

       Introduction

       The Changing Nature of Tourist Privilege over Host in Volunteer Tourism

       The Other

       The Othering of Local Communities through Tourism

       Cross-cultural Exchange

       Conclusion

       9 Looking at the Future of Volunteer Tourism: Commodification, Altruism and Accreditation

       Commodification

       Altruism (is not a Dirty Word)

       The Role of Accreditation in the Future of Volunteer Tourism

       A Final Word: Expanding the Research Agenda for Volunteer Tourism

       References

       Index

       About the Authors

      Nancy Gard McGehee, PhD, J. Willard and Alice Marriott Junior Faculty Fellow in Hospitality Management, 363A Wallace Hall Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA; E-mail: [email protected]

      Stephen Leslie Wearing, School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 1 Lindfield, 2070 NSW, Australia; E-mail: [email protected]

       Guest Contributors

      Simone Grabowski is a PhD candidate in the UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; E-mail: [email protected]

      Matthew McDonald is a visiting research fellow in the Graduate School of Psychology, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, and a chartered member of the British Psychological Society. He is the author and co-author of a number of books, the most recent including Critical Social Psychology: An Introduction, 2nd edition (with Brendan Gough and Marjella McFadden; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Epiphanies: An Existential Philosophical and Psychological Inquiry (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009). E-mail: [email protected]

      John Wilson is an existential counsellor in the Graduate School of Psychology at Assumption University, Bangkok. He has a special interest in continental philosophy.

       Preface

      This book revisits and further develops the topics and themes covered in Volunteer Tourism: Experiences That Make a Difference, written over 10 years ago. In Volunteer Tourism, Wearing attempted to develop greater conceptual clarification around the notion of ‘alternative tourism’ with a specific focus on tourists СКАЧАТЬ