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Volunteer Tourism: a Host Community Capital Perspective
Introduction. This study examines the impacts of volunteer tourists from the perspective of the host community using Flora's (2004) community capital model as a framework, and in particular to observe if and how bridging and bonding social capital in a community is influenced by volunteer tourism. Over the past decade, the primary focus of ...
Volunteer Tourism: a Host Community Capital Perspective
This study examines the impacts of volunteer tourists from the perspective of the host community using Flora's (2004) community capital model as a framework, and in particular to observe if and how bridging and bonding social capital in a community is influenced by volunteer tourism. This is a unique perspective as the research 1) Anne Zahra ...
Volunteer Tourism: A Host Community Capital Perspective
Abstract. This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website ...
Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective
Jane Godfrey. Sociology, Business. European Journal of Tourism Research. 2018. While conventional mass tourism has been criticised for negatively impacting the host community, volunteer tourism has traditionally been portrayed as an altruistic alternative which allows tourists….
Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective
This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years.
The impact of volunteer tourism on local communities: A managerial
Volunteer tourism, as a potential tool for community development and sustainability, has been gaining the attention of researchers for the past decade. However, little empirical research exists about the impact of this activity on the host communities from the managerial point of view.
Volunteer Tourism: a Host Community Capital Perspective
This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years. Flora's (2004) community capitals framework is applied to delineate a ...
Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective
Abstract This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years.
Volunteer tourism: a host community capital perspective.
This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years. Flora's (2004) community capitals framework is applied to delineate a broad...
Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability
Table 1. Volunteer tourism research from a community perspective. Author(s) Fieldwork location and method Condensed overview of findings Conran, 2011 Nine-month ethnographic study in Chiang Mai, Thailand Intimacy overshadows any inequalities within host communities Frilund, 2018 Interviews with 34 locals and a survey of 100 foreign tourists to ...
Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability
While community-perspectives have extended our understanding of intimacy, interactions, relationship development and capital exchange (Conran, Citation 2011; Kontogeorgopoulos, Citation 2017; Prince, Citation 2017; Zahra & McGehee, Citation 2013), limited focus has been given to the space that structures these dynamics.Thus, this paper places the analytical lens on the host community ...
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In its beginning, volunteer tourism started to be considered as a mean for the tourists to access a more authentic and integrating experience in the host community, as a scarcely contemplated option in the mass conventional tourism (Gofrey et al., 2019). This fact is associated with the transformation of tourist markets towards post-Fordist
Volunteer Tourism and Travel Volunteering
Zahra, Anne, and Alison McIntosh. 2007. "Volunteer Tourism: Evidence of Cathartic Tourist Experiences." Tourism Recreation Research 32: 115-119. Article Google Scholar Zahra, Anne, and Nancy G. McGehee. 2013."Host Perceptions of Volunteer Tourism: A Community Capital Perspective." Annals of Tourism Research 42: 22-45
The Perception of Volunteer Tourism from the Host Community Perspective
The rationale for conducting this study arises from the current literature defining volunteer tourists based on the perspective where the majority of volunteer sending organizations and volunteer ...
Social capital, tourism
Putnam, R. 1993 The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life. The American Prospect 13:35-42. Google Scholar Zahra, A., and N. McGehee 2013 Host Perceptions of Volunteer Tourism: A Community Capital Perspective. Annals of Tourism Research 42:22-45. Article Google Scholar Download references
Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism" by Jamie Thompson et al. ... Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective. A. Zahra N. Mcgehee. Sociology. 2013; 128. Save. Volunteer tourism impacts in Ghana: a practice approach.
Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism
Examination of capital exchange in volunteer tourism settings of Cambodia and Kenya. The significance of a Bourdieusian and interactionist framework is explored. The cultural value for education exists regardless of financial hardship. The 'ideal volunteer' is one who contributes economic capital to the host community.
Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host
This paper explores the role (s) of VTOs in a rural volunteer tourism hub in Ghana from a host community perspective using a phenomenological inquiry. An integrated framework of Critical ...
Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100785 Corpus ID: 230561186; Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective @article{Mensah2021ReconceptualizingVT, title={Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective}, author={Esi Akyere Mensah and Elizabeth Agyeiwaah and Felix Elvis Otoo}, journal={Tourism Management Perspectives}, year={2021}, volume={37 ...
Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host
This paper explores the role (s) of VTOs in a rural volunteer tourism hub in Ghana from a host community perspective using a phenomenological inquiry. An integrated framework of Critical/Institutional Analysis and Development (C/IAD) was used to examine host community experience with VTOs' role. Data was collected through focus group discussion ...
Linking tourism to social capital in destination communities
A major challenge for tourism as a social and economic activity and as an academic study is the integration of multiple perspectives into coherent frameworks. This paper explores this challenge and ... Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective. A. Zahra N. Mcgehee. Sociology. 2013; 130. Save. Ethnic Tourism and Resident Quality-of ...
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Introduction. This study examines the impacts of volunteer tourists from the perspective of the host community using Flora's (2004) community capital model as a framework, and in particular to observe if and how bridging and bonding social capital in a community is influenced by volunteer tourism. Over the past decade, the primary focus of ...
This study examines the impacts of volunteer tourists from the perspective of the host community using Flora's (2004) community capital model as a framework, and in particular to observe if and how bridging and bonding social capital in a community is influenced by volunteer tourism. This is a unique perspective as the research 1) Anne Zahra ...
Abstract. This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website ...
Jane Godfrey. Sociology, Business. European Journal of Tourism Research. 2018. While conventional mass tourism has been criticised for negatively impacting the host community, volunteer tourism has traditionally been portrayed as an altruistic alternative which allows tourists….
This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years.
Volunteer tourism, as a potential tool for community development and sustainability, has been gaining the attention of researchers for the past decade. However, little empirical research exists about the impact of this activity on the host communities from the managerial point of view.
This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years. Flora's (2004) community capitals framework is applied to delineate a ...
Abstract This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years.
This study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years. Flora's (2004) community capitals framework is applied to delineate a broad...
Table 1. Volunteer tourism research from a community perspective. Author(s) Fieldwork location and method Condensed overview of findings Conran, 2011 Nine-month ethnographic study in Chiang Mai, Thailand Intimacy overshadows any inequalities within host communities Frilund, 2018 Interviews with 34 locals and a survey of 100 foreign tourists to ...
While community-perspectives have extended our understanding of intimacy, interactions, relationship development and capital exchange (Conran, Citation 2011; Kontogeorgopoulos, Citation 2017; Prince, Citation 2017; Zahra & McGehee, Citation 2013), limited focus has been given to the space that structures these dynamics.Thus, this paper places the analytical lens on the host community ...
In its beginning, volunteer tourism started to be considered as a mean for the tourists to access a more authentic and integrating experience in the host community, as a scarcely contemplated option in the mass conventional tourism (Gofrey et al., 2019). This fact is associated with the transformation of tourist markets towards post-Fordist
Zahra, Anne, and Alison McIntosh. 2007. "Volunteer Tourism: Evidence of Cathartic Tourist Experiences." Tourism Recreation Research 32: 115-119. Article Google Scholar Zahra, Anne, and Nancy G. McGehee. 2013."Host Perceptions of Volunteer Tourism: A Community Capital Perspective." Annals of Tourism Research 42: 22-45
The rationale for conducting this study arises from the current literature defining volunteer tourists based on the perspective where the majority of volunteer sending organizations and volunteer ...
Putnam, R. 1993 The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life. The American Prospect 13:35-42. Google Scholar Zahra, A., and N. McGehee 2013 Host Perceptions of Volunteer Tourism: A Community Capital Perspective. Annals of Tourism Research 42:22-45. Article Google Scholar Download references
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism" by Jamie Thompson et al. ... Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective. A. Zahra N. Mcgehee. Sociology. 2013; 128. Save. Volunteer tourism impacts in Ghana: a practice approach.
Examination of capital exchange in volunteer tourism settings of Cambodia and Kenya. The significance of a Bourdieusian and interactionist framework is explored. The cultural value for education exists regardless of financial hardship. The 'ideal volunteer' is one who contributes economic capital to the host community.
This paper explores the role (s) of VTOs in a rural volunteer tourism hub in Ghana from a host community perspective using a phenomenological inquiry. An integrated framework of Critical ...
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100785 Corpus ID: 230561186; Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective @article{Mensah2021ReconceptualizingVT, title={Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective}, author={Esi Akyere Mensah and Elizabeth Agyeiwaah and Felix Elvis Otoo}, journal={Tourism Management Perspectives}, year={2021}, volume={37 ...
This paper explores the role (s) of VTOs in a rural volunteer tourism hub in Ghana from a host community perspective using a phenomenological inquiry. An integrated framework of Critical/Institutional Analysis and Development (C/IAD) was used to examine host community experience with VTOs' role. Data was collected through focus group discussion ...
A major challenge for tourism as a social and economic activity and as an academic study is the integration of multiple perspectives into coherent frameworks. This paper explores this challenge and ... Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective. A. Zahra N. Mcgehee. Sociology. 2013; 130. Save. Ethnic Tourism and Resident Quality-of ...