A segmented volunteer tourism industry

Stainton, Hayley

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2016.09.011

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“…However, there is controversy in defining volunteer tourism as it depends on its purpose, timeframe, and elements, etc. [23]. The concepts and definitions of previous studies on volunteer tourism are as follows.…”

Section: Volunteer Tourismmentioning

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Tourism and Altruistic Intention: Volunteer Tourism Development and Self-Interested Value

2020

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Volunteer tourism is indisputably an emerging trend in the tourism industry across the globe. Yet, little is known about the altruistic behavior of volunteer travelers. To fill this void, this research explores the convoluted relationships among memorable experience, awareness of problem, social norm, psychological resilience, personal norm, and self-interested value in driving altruistic intention. A field survey was conducted with a quantitative approach. The result reveals that psychological resilience and personal norm are direct determinants of altruistic intention while mediating the influence of awareness of problem and social norm on intention. In addition, memorable experience along with awareness of problem significantly induced volunteer travelers’ psychological resilience. Moreover, the test for metric invariance shows that the relationships between psychological resilience, personal norm, and altruistic intention are under the significant influence of volunteer travelers’ self-interested value. Overall, the variance in altruistic intention for volunteer tourism is satisfactorily explained by our suggested theoretical framework.

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Section: Volunteer Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and Altruistic Intention: Volunteer Tourism Development and Self-Interested Value

2020

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“…Existing literature addressing the volunteer tourism industry is predominantly utilised as a means of framing this study due to the scale and extent of existing research in this field as opposed to other alternative forms. The past two decades have seen the industry manifest in a range of contexts and progressively move away from being a micro to a macro niche (Stainton, 2016;Wearing and McGehee, 2013a).…”

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“…Whilst the study of TEFL tourism may classify as a micro volunteer tourism niche on many accounts, taking into consideration current debates regarding the blurring of boundaries and paid work (e.g. Ellis, 1997;Lyons, 2003;Lyons and Wearing, 2012;Tomazos and Butler, 2009) and the extent of unpaid opportunities, it is argued that such micro niches should be examined individually as opposed to adopting the current umbrella approach (Stainton, 2016).…”

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“…Whilst there are arguments that the blurring of paid and voluntary work has become commonplace (Lyons and Wearing, 2012), for many scholars the TEFL teacher who is in receipt of a regular salary will not qualify as a volunteer tourist. Furthermore, as a result of the exponential growth and diversification of the industry (Coghlan and Fennell, 2009; McGehee, 2013b) it has been argued that there is a need for segmented examination in to the specific sectors, such as TEFL, as opposed to the broad research approach that tends to have been taken to date (Stainton, 2016). It must also be noted that there are similarities with backpacking tourism and working holidays although there appear to be no direct links in the existing body of literature.…”

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TEFL tourism: the tourist who teaches

Stainton

2017

Tourism Geographies

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There is evident lineage between the concepts of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) and tourism, represented through evocative marketing material, the commoditisation of the TEFL product, teacher motivations and experiences. Yet, to date there has been little attention paid to this relationship. The amalgamation of the two concepts brings rise to the introduction of the niche form of tourism 'TEFL tourism', where the tourist travels outside of their usual environment to teach English as a foreign language and whose role shifts between tourist, educator and educatee at various points in their trip. The TEFL tourism phenomenon is explored through the use of a two-phase research approach employing the qualitative examination of blogs written by TEFL teachers and quantitative surveys. Drawing parallels with associated tourism forms including volunteer, education and philanthropic, it is concluded that TEFL tourism is an entity in its own right, with unique characteristics and motivations presented by TEFL tourists. The use of logistic regression facilitated the analysis of TEFL teacher types, presenting a typology classifying tourists as leisure-minded; philanthropy-minded; career-minded; expatriate-minded. This case-study examination facilitates initial comprehension of the TEFL tourism industry, providing basis for subsequent research to be undertaken to enable enhanced sustainable management of the TEFL industry worldwide.

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“…It has now progressed into a macroniche with an array of micro niches situated beneath it [15]. Despite this, available studies mostly explore environmental, humanitarian, and development projects in less developed countries, whose cultures are significantly different from voluntourists' cultures [14,16].…”

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Volunteer Tourism as a Sustainable Form of Tourism—The Case of Organized Events

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This paper focuses on volunteer tourism as a sustainable form of tourism relating to the volunteer service at a tourism destination and specific tourism activities. The aim of the paper is to explore volunteer tourism in Slovakia with examples of organized events, especially to search exactly how event's organizers support the development of domestic and inbound volunteer tourism in Slovakia. This paper is based on a sociological survey. We addressed 653 heterogeneous event's organizers in Slovakia. 18% of them participated in the questionnaire survey. The collected data were processed by selected mathematical and statistical methods in SPSS statistics program. As such, we found most events organizers team up with volunteers. Only half of the organizers cooperate with local volunteers, while the second half also support the development of volunteer tourism engaging in voluntourism. In the case of attractive events, the engagement of voluntourists could be more effective. The current situation has resulted from missing information about the management of volunteers but it could be improved through an e-manual for event organizers providing an outline guide for volunteer management.

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A segmented volunteer tourism industry

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Tourism and Altruistic Intention: Volunteer Tourism Development and Self-Interested Value

Tourism and Altruistic Intention: Volunteer Tourism Development and Self-Interested Value

TEFL tourism: the tourist who teaches

Volunteer Tourism as a Sustainable Form of Tourism—The Case of Organized Events

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