Volunteer tourism is an increasingly popular activity in which individuals combine travel with
voluntary work. On the whole, existing literature has provided an optimistic view of volunteer …

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage
individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good. Traditionally the …

This Department has been specifically created to include findings of special significance and
problem areas of subtle nuances in tourism research. Insightful contributions presenting the …

This book is the product of the ongoing research agenda on volunteer tourism developed by
the Volunteer Tourism Research Group which is part of the Association for Tourism and …

Volunteer tourism is generally seen to provide a reciprocal form of travel from which both the
volunteer and the host communities are able to benefit. It has been described as having the …

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 …

Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative
sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and …

ABSTRACT A popular trend is for US colleges to organise short-term, self-funded trips for
students to volunteer for several weeks in poverty-stricken communities in the global South …

Volunteer tourism as a form of international development has been posed as an alternative
mechanism which has the potential to achieve different socio-cultural outcomes. In this guise …

In recent years in the UK there has been a great expansion in the number of young people
travelling to Third World countries between school and university in order to participate as …