Volunteer Tourism: Experiences that Make a Difference (Cabi Publishing)
S. Wearing
Volunteer tourism describes a field of tourism in which travellers visit a destination and take part in projects in the local community. Projects are commonly nature-based, people-based or involve restoration of buildings and artefacts.Contemporary volunteer tourism has tended to suffer from a lack of differentiation from other forms of tourism or volunteering, falling into areas such as alternative tourism, international volunteering, social work and conservation corps work. The aim of this book is to provide it with a more specific identity.This book provides:An overview of the phenomenon of volunteer tourism, its sources and its development as a conceptA focus on the potential positive social and environmental benefits of volunteer tourism, and the prerequisites
الفئات:
عام:
2001
الإصدار:
First
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
240
ISBN 10:
0851997651
ISBN 13:
9780851997650
ملف:
PDF, 802 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2001