Ambassador, worker and player: independent travellers working in American summer camps

Title: Ambassador, worker and player: independent travellers working in American summer camps
Creator: Lyons, Kevin
Relation: Down the Road: Exploring Backpacker and Independent Travel p. 93-108
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Publisher: API Network
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2005
Description: Around January each year, advertisements begin to appear in the employment sections of major newspapers throughout Australia, aimed at recruiting young Australians to work in American summer camps. Up to two thousand young Australians answer the call annually and engage in what is often marketed as a cultural exchange program. While American camps and the exchange programs that serve them exemplify organised leisure, this chapter argues that independent travellers working in this context challenge any simplistic unidimensional typing of their participation. In examining the experiences of independent travellers who work at camps in the United States, particular emphasis is placed upon exploring how independent travellers negotiate and reconcile the ambiguities that this experience presents.
Subject: summer camps; America; cultural exchange programs; tourism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923727
Identifier: uon:9803
Identifier: ISBN:1920845143
Language: eng

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