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Research

Volunteer Tourism

Angela M Benson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-53958-6 (ISBN)

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Volunteer tourism is one of the major growth areas in contemporary tourism, where tourists for various reasons seek alternative goodwill experiences and activities. An emerging segment of this is Research Volunteer Tourism. Research Volunteer Tourism is where; volunteers either engage in research themselves or assist others with their research projects. The use of volunteers is one of the key mechanisms for research volunteer organizations to meet their goals and therefore, they play an important role. Volunteers can usually be accommodated within the portfolio of projects and the recruitment of volunteers onto projects can enable the unlocking of money, annually, from private individuals which provides invaluable funding. In addition, weeks and months of individuals’ time is donated to participate in projects and in furthering the sustainability agenda. Yet the extent to which the organizations engage with volunteers varies considerably as does the expectation of volunteers in this role.

This book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of research volunteer tourists to fully explore whether perceptions of what constitutes the concept of volunteering is the same as the organization, and whether they perceive themselves in a volunteering role. Issues such as payment for experience and what the payment contributes towards are thoroughly explored for the first time. This book therefore moves beyond the topics of volunteer motivation providing further understanding and knowledge of volunteer perspectives across different aspects of the volunteering experiences.

Written by a leading academic in this field, this timely book will be of interest to tourism students and academics internationally.

Angela Benson is Principal Lecturer and Discipline Head for Tourism and Travel at the School of Service Management, University of Brighton. Her main research interests lie in the areas of volunteer tourism sector from the supply (the providing organisations) and demand (the volunteers) perspectives, enabling the dynamics of the sector to be determined. Other research activities include membership of the editorial board for the Journal of the Applied Sciences in Tourism (JAST) and the Journal of Educational Travel (JET), reviewer for a number of international journals and membership of various scientific committees.

1. Introduction 2. Defining the experience – Research Volunteer Tourism 3. The Volunteer 4. Influencing factors to engage in the experience 5. Key Dimensions of the experience 6. Paying to volunteer – An Oxymoron? 7. The ‘Research’ in Research Volunteer Tourism 8. The Volunteer on the Organisations 9. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2026
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-53958-7 / 0415539587
ISBN-13	978-0-415-53958-6 / 9780415539586
Zustand	Neuware