Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective

Mensah, Esi Akyere; Agyeiwaah, Elizabeth; Otoo, Felix Elvis

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100785

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“…Hence, improvements of operational practices of both organisations are vital to tackle the inequality among stakeholders and the potential negative impacts on host projects (Barbieri et al, 2012;Sinervo, 2015). Moreover, organisations' detachment from host projects and communities has been criticised (Mensah et al, 2021) and more engagement at the community level is required (Steele & Scherrer, 2018). The operations of the placements by both organisations are a substantial facet in addressing sustainability, especially addressing the power imbalances.…”

Section: Stakeholders' Geopolitical Positioning At the Community Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is little understanding of the role, value and engagement of the receiving organisation (Czarnecki et al, 2015;Sinervo, 2015). The receiving organisation may act as a local organisation in the host country and works with one or more host projects in different capacities (Mensah et al, 2021). The local agent may comprise of a community or not-for-profit organisation but does not host volunteers (Phelan, 2015).…”

Section: The Role Of the Receiving Organisation As A Local Agentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Few studies have examined multiple stakeholders and their relations (e.g. Lee & Zhang, 2020;Mensah et al, 2021) and thus there has been limited knowledge of the receiving organisation or the host project and the complexities of their relations. More knowledge on cross-cultural understanding, relationships, communications, views, and perspectives among stakeholders is needed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More knowledge on cross-cultural understanding, relationships, communications, views, and perspectives among stakeholders is needed. Detailed insights into the sustainable aspects necessary for operating a programme demand further research (Mensah et al, 2021;Steele & Scherrer, 2018). Although the socio-economic divide between volunteers and host projects undermines well-intended volunteer programmes, how the contextual settings of stakeholders' impact outcomes are yet to be fully explored (Taplin et al, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Operationalising sustainability in volunteer tourism by power-sharing with the receiving organisation

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Kimbu

Font

2021

Tourism Recreation Research

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The outcomes of volunteer tourism have rarely evaluated, and the sustainable practices, such as equality within this sector, are questionable. Extant research has indicated that miscommunication and poor volunteer placement management can lead to ineffectiveness and negative experiences for stakeholders such as host project staff and volunteers. Collaborative relations between the main stakeholders at a local level were evaluated and deconstructed to enable a better understanding of operational practices that influence sustainable outcomes for host projects. This evaluative study examined the role of the receiving organisation at the host destination in achieving sustainable outcomes utilising a case study in South Africa. An evaluative framework integrating realistic evaluation, collaboration theory and supply chain analysis offered in-depth insights into why the local contextual settings influence how collaborative relations among stakeholders can influence sustainable outcomes. The receiving organisation's knowledge of the local socio-economic contextual settings of each host project is critical to the successful engagement between hosts and volunteers which leads to equality. The evaluative framework offers an understanding of how and why the local contextual settings and the prosocial approach by the local agent are essential in enabling sustainability performance in volunteer tourism.

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Section: Stakeholders' Geopolitical Positioning At the Community Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Role Of the Receiving Organisation As A Local Agentmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Operationalising sustainability in volunteer tourism by power-sharing with the receiving organisation

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2021

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“…The volunteer tourism model as presented by Simpson (2004) focused on British young people between the ages of 18 and 20 who take a gap-year between school and university to travel and volunteer to work in developing countries. Apart from the young British, there are persons or groups of persons of other ages of diverse nationalities who also participate in volunteer tourism (Jamie 2021;Mensah et al 2021). On the basis of the findings from volunteer tourists' work with children in South America, Simpson (2004, p. 682) made the argument that volunteer tourism has resulted in "a construction of the world where there are simplistic boundaries between two places (ie that of the north and south) that perpetuates a simplistic ideal of development [that] legitimizes the validity of young unskilled international labour as a development solution.…”

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Resourcing local government in Ghana: the potential of volunteering to deliver basic services

Adamtey

Amoako

Doe

2021

CJLG

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Both local and foreign volunteers have been involved in community development activities in Ghana. However, there is a dearth of research on the perceived and real impacts of volunteers in delivering services, reasons for volunteering, the potential of volunteering to supplement the human and financial resources of local governments in Ghana, and the conditions required for more successful outcomes. This qualitative study examined volunteering activities across 15 communities of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) Municipality in Ghana’s Central Region. It found that volunteering empowered the people, triggered self-help initiatives and improved local people’s knowledge on health and environmental issues. However, there are challenges in finding political and social space for volunteers within the current local government system. The study recommends efforts to address that issue.

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Enhancing memorable volunteer tourism experiences through mindfulness: A case of short‐term volunteer tourists

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Jiang

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Journal of Tourism Research

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Voluntourism has been increasingly researched in tourism studies. However, the need remains to better understand what drives memorable experiences in such a context. This research applied mindfulness theory in the setting of voluntourism. The influence of mindfulness among voluntourists was studied along with dimensions of memorable tourism experiences (MTEs, i.e., hedonism, involvement, meaningfulness, knowledge, novelty, and local culture) and revisit intention among voluntourists. A structural model was employed with twelve hypotheses pertaining to data collected from 342 Chinese residents who had prior voluntourism experience before data collection in March 2020. For data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test relationships between variables. Data analysis demonstrated that mindfulness significantly influenced all six dimensions of MTEs in this study. Four of the dimensions of MTE (i.e., hedonism, involvement, meaningfulness, and local culture) significantly influenced revisit intention.

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Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective

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Operationalising sustainability in volunteer tourism by power-sharing with the receiving organisation

Operationalising sustainability in volunteer tourism by power-sharing with the receiving organisation

Resourcing local government in Ghana: the potential of volunteering to deliver basic services

Enhancing memorable volunteer tourism experiences through mindfulness: A case of short‐term volunteer tourists

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