Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?

Wearing, S; Young, T; Everingham, P

Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?

Wearing, S

Young, T Everingham, P

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Tourism Recreation Research, 2017, 42 (4), pp. 512 - 521
Issue Date:: 2017-10-02

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dc.contributor.author	Wearing, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-059X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Young, T	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Everingham, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-10-02	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tourism Recreation Research, 2017, 42 (4), pp. 512 - 521	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0250-8281	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115031
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the challenges of evaluating volunteer tourism and looks towards possibilities for rethinking the ways in which the phenomenon is conceptualised. We reflect on the debates and practices that have emerged since the first theoretical exploration introduced over 15 years ago in a book titled Volunteer tourism: Experiences that make a difference. This review paper commences with a discussion of the criticisms that have been targeted at both research and practice, and reflects on the need to rethink how volunteer tourism is evaluated. We 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.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Tourism Recreation Research	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/02508281.2017.1345470	en_US
dc.title	Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the challenges of evaluating volunteer tourism and looks towards possibilities for rethinking the ways in which the phenomenon is conceptualised. We reflect on the debates and practices that have emerged since the first theoretical exploration introduced over 15 years ago in a book titled Volunteer tourism: Experiences that make a difference. This review paper commences with a discussion of the criticisms that have been targeted at both research and practice, and reflects on the need to rethink how volunteer tourism is evaluated. We 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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