Reflections on the ambiguous intersections between volunteering and tourism

Title: Reflections on the ambiguous intersections between volunteering and tourism
Creator: Lyons, Kevin D.; Wearing, Stephen
Relation: Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 34, Issue 1, p. 88-93
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2012.633858
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: In this paper we critique the intersections between volunteering and tourism and consider how these have been treated in scholarly research. We highlight how current narrow definitions of volunteer tourism may be obscuring activities which could further expand our understanding of the intersections of volunteering and tourism. We reflect on three examples from our own research to explore atypical volunteer tourism activities that push at the current boundaries of volunteer tourism conceptualizations and definitions.
Subject: volunteer tourism; service learning; cultural exchange
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/928564
Identifier: uon:10381
Identifier: ISSN:0149-0400
Language: eng
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