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Magazine article
Power to the hosts: how to fix volunteer tourism
The Conversation
2018
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Abstract
Power to the hosts: how to fix volunteer tourism theconversation.com/power-to-the-hosts-how-to-fix-volunteer-tourism-93944 Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is no stranger to criticism. Media reports regularly support claims that profits and visitor experience are trumping the needs of host communities. Volunteer tourism is the intersection between tourism and volunteering. It involves travellers participating in organised short-term voluntary work to help communities, the environment and/or research in the places they visit. Late last year, World Challenge – the world's biggest school-based volunteer travel company – stopped offering trips to orphanages in the developing world, based on evidence of the harms done to children by the industry. So what has gone wrong? How could the feel-good darling of tourism become so tarnished? And, more importantly, how can we change it for the better? Read more: Volunteer tourism: what's wrong with it and how it can be changed Volunteer tourism should be subject to checks and balances, with host communities firmly in the driver's seat. Shutterstock Power to the hosts: how to fix volunteer tourism April 17, 2018 5.17pm AEST
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- Title
- Power to the hosts: how to fix volunteer tourism
- Creators
- Pascal Scherrer (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityJessica Steele (Author) - St Marys University
- Publication Details
- The Conversation
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group Ltd
- Identifiers
- 1920; 991012821508002368
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Conversation Media Group Ltd
- Academic Unit
- School of Business and Tourism; Management; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article