The practices of volunteer tourism organisations and volunteer tourists are coming under increasing scrutiny due to concerns about the rapid expansion and commercialisation of the sector. As a result, the monitoring and evaluation of volunteer tourism programmes is deemed important to ensure that programmes remain relevant to both host communities and volunteer tourists. However, as the literature on volunteer tourism demonstrates, the landscape of volunteer tourism has become increasingly complex and ambiguous. Drawing from the fields of evaluation studies and critical management studies as well as an extensive review of the volunteer tourism literature and practical insights derived from ‘grey literature’, this paper considers the implications of this complex landscape for the monitoring and evaluation of volunteer tourism programmes. Building upon these insights, we present a critical approach for examining the monitoring and evaluation of volunteer tourism programmes
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Programme monitoring and evaluation in volunteer tourism: towards a critical approach
Tourism and global change: on the edge of something big: CAUTHE 2013 Conference handbook and book of abstracts, pp.795-813
Tourism and global change: on the edge of something big: CAUTHE 2013 Conference handbook and book of abstracts (Christchurch, New Zealand, 11/02/2013 - 14/02/2013)
2013
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- Title
- Programme monitoring and evaluation in volunteer tourism: towards a critical approach
- Creators
- Jessica Taplin (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityDianne Dredge (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityPascal Scherrer Dr (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Joanna Fountain (Editor of compilation)Kevin Moore (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Tourism and global change: on the edge of something big: CAUTHE 2013 Conference handbook and book of abstracts, pp.795-813
- Conference
- Tourism and global change: on the edge of something big: CAUTHE 2013 Conference handbook and book of abstracts (Christchurch, New Zealand, 11/02/2013 - 14/02/2013)
- Publisher
- CAUTHE; Christchurch, New Zealand
- Identifiers
- 1970; 991012821683702368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Management; School of Business and Tourism
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding