INTERNATIONALVOLUNTEERTOURISM Integrating Travellers and Communities

Аннотация

This book revisits and further develops the topics and themes covered in Volunteer Tourism: Experiences That Make a Difference, written over 10 years ago. In Volunteer Tourism, Wearing attempted to develop greater conceptual clarification around the notion of ‘alternative tourism’ with a specific focus on tourists who volunteer as a part, or for the whole of their travels. The book focused primarily on research carried out in the Santa Elena Rainforest, Costa Rica (Wearing, 1993; Wearing & Larson, 1996; Wearing, 1998, 2009) between the years 1991 and 1994. At this time, the paradigm of volunteer tourism was as an extension of ideas on community-based ecotourism ( Wearing & McLean, 1997). Since that time, the majority of Wearing’s fieldwork has focused on areas closer to home in Australia, particularly Papua New Guinea and other South Pacific nations. Some of the following stems from the author’s experiences, research and recent publications carried out in these destinations from 2001 to 2012. This book incorporates some of the work written in previous publications with current thinking and research in volunteer tourism.