By Stephen Wearing, Nancy Gard McGehee
This ebook revisits and extra develops the subjects and topics lined in Volunteer Tourism: stories That Make a distinction, written over 10 years in the past. focusing on the adventure of the volunteer vacationer and the host neighborhood, this re-creation builds at the view of volunteer tourism as a good and sustainable kind of tourism to envision a broader spectrum of behaviours and studies and view severely the place the volunteer vacationer adventure either compliments and collides with host groups, utilizing a number of case reviews. The ebook has 9 chapters and a subject matter index.
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G. Holden, 1984). 4 Krippendorf (1987: 37) notes that the guiding principle of alternative tourists is to put as much distance between themselves and mass tourism in trying to establish more contact with the local population, without a reliance on tourist infrastructure, in utilizing the same accommodation and transport facilities as the local population. This is directly related to sustainability – and sustainable development by implication – which is, despite its ambiguity, fundamental to the positioning of any touristic experience as alternative.
Tourism theories and research have emerged from a wide variety of fields and disciplines, including psychology, sociology, geography, ecology and anthropology. A variety of categories and labels of touristic experiences have emerged within the realm of alternative tourism that reflect both marketing differentiations and ideologically divergent forms of tourism. This includes (but is not limited to) nature, green, special interest, pro-poor, adventure, communitybased, war and ecotourism. W. Butler, 1990; McGehee, 2002; Bowden, 2005).
A significant component of PPT is obviously oriented towards alleviating poverty. One mechanism that can contribute to poverty alleviation is volunteering. As a result, there is great potential for synergies between PPT and volunteer tourism when approached in a decommodified or alternative way. In spite of its importance, the ambiguity of the conceptualization of alternative tourism is a major stumbling block toward the development of a concise yet inclusive definition (Smith & Eadington, 1997). A significant and often raised question in this respect is to what extent has the primacy of the dominant hegemony of commercialism led to misinterpretation by the industry and the inclusion of a range of experiences that may not relate to its original ideals that underpin alternative tourism.