‘Making a Difference’: Volunteer Tourism and Development
@article{Butcher2010MakingAD, title={‘Making a Difference’: Volunteer Tourism and Development}, author={J. Butcher and P. Smith}, journal={Tourism Recreation Research}, year={2010}, volume={35}, pages={27 - 36} }
Abstract In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism, mainly in the form of the growth of gap-year companies offering placements, linked to conservation and community well-being goals. This paper makes two points: firstly, it argues that the growth of volunteer tourism is in part a product of the politics of the current period—the decline of grand narratives and the growth of ‘life political’ alternative forms of agency. Hence volunteer tourism, motivated by the… CONTINUE READING
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