International Volunteer Tourism : Integrating Travellers and Communities

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. Contents 6 About the Authors 9 Preface 10 List of Tables, Boxes and Figures 12 1 Introduction 14 Beyond Experiences that Make a Difference 14 Historical Foundations of Alternative Tourism 15 Volunteer Tourism as the Ultimate Alternative Tourism? 18 Selves in the Tourism Experience 20 Ecotourism Operators, Communities and Volunteer Tourism 23 The Growth in Volunteer Tourism 26 Volunteer Tourism and Pro-poor Tourism 27 Book Outline 28 2 Alternative Tourism Experiences 31 Introduction 31 Alternative Tourism 32 Situating Volunteer Tourism in the Context of the Alternative Tourism Experience 36 Commodification and the Tourism Industry 40 Volunteer Tourism and the Tourism Industry 44 3 Community Development in Volunteer Tourism Destinations 52 Introduction 52 Valuing Local Cultures 53 Developing Volunteer Tourism Projects with Local Communities 56 Measures to Evaluate Volunteer Tourism in Local Communities 57 4 The Volunteer Tourism Organization 62 Introduction 62 Conservation Volunteers Australia 64 Mobility International USA 69 Youth Challenge International 74 5 Volunteer Tourists: Why Do They Do It? 83 Introduction 83 Motivation Theory 83 Theorizing Volunteer Tourist Motivation 88 Conclusion 95 6 Volunteer Tourism Projects: A Proposed Mechanism to Improve Working with Local Communities 97 Introduction 97 Processes 98 Case Study 1: Taita Discovery Centre in Kenya 104 Case Study 2: Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, Phuket, Thailand 108 Case Study 3: Lessons From Cuba: a Volunteer Army of Ambassadors 112 Conclusion 116 7 Volunteer Tourism: An Existential Perspective 118 Introduction 118 Authenticity in Tourism Studies 119 Existential Authenticity 121 Authenticity, Voluntarist Ethics and Tourism 124 Conclusion 128 8 Communities as More than ‘Other’ in Cross-cultural Volunteer Tourism 129 Introduction 129 The Changing Nature of Tourist Privilege over Host in Volunteer Tourism 131 The Other 132 The Othering of Local Communities through Tourism 133 Cross-cultural Exchange 137 Conclusion 138 9 Looking at the Future of Volunteer Tourism: Commodification, Altruism and Accreditation 141 Commodification 141 Altruism (is not a Dirty Word) 145 The Role of Accreditation in the Future of Volunteer Tourism 146 A Final Word: Expanding the Research Agenda for Volunteer Tourism 148 References 154 Index 180 A 180 B 180 C 181 D 181 E 181 F 182 G 182 H 182 I 182 K 183 L 183 M 183 N 183 O 183 P 183 R 184 S 184 T 184 U 184 V 185 W 185 Y 185 Chapter: 1 (Page no: 1) Introduction. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Chapter: 2 (Page no: 18) Alternative tourism experiences. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Chapter: 3 (Page no: 39) Community development in volunteer tourism destinations. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Chapter: 4 (Page no: 49) The volunteer tourism organization. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Chapter: 5 (Page no: 70) Volunteer tourists: why do they do it? Author(s): Grabowski, S. Chapter: 6 (Page no: 84) Volunteer tourism projects: a proposed mechanism to improve working with local communities. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Chapter: 7 (Page no: 105) Volunteer tourism: an existential perspective. Author(s): McDonald, M. Wilson, J. Chapter: 8 (Page no: 116) Communities as more than 'other' in cross-cultural volunteer tourism. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Chapter: 9 (Page no: 128) Looking at the future of volunteer tourism: commodification, altruism and accreditation. Author(s): Wearing, S. L. McGehee, N. Volunteer tourism has increased in popularity and prevalence and is no longer considered only a small section of alternative tourism. It is now part of the mainstream tourism industry and tourism experience for many people. Using multiple case studies and 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 behaviors and experiences and consider critically where the volunteer tourist experience both compliments and collides with host communities.. Volunteer tourism has increased in popularity and prevalence and is no longer considered only a small section of alternative tourism. It is now part of the mainstream tourism industry and tourism experience for many people. Concentrating on the experience of the volunteer tourist and the host community, this new book 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. Volunteer tourism has increased in popularity and prevalence and is no longer considered only a small section of alternative tourism. It is now part of the mainstream tourism industry and tourism experience for many people. 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 behaviors and experiences and consider critically where the volunteer tourist experience both compliments and collides with host communities, using multiple ca