Introduction
Conservation Volunteers Australia
5 Volunteer Tourists: Why Do They Do It?
Simone Grabowski
Theorizing Volunteer Tourist Motivation
6 Volunteer Tourism Projects: A Proposed Mechanism to Improve Working with Local Communities
Case Study 1: Taita Discovery Centre in Kenya
Andrew Lepp
Case Study 2: Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, Phuket, Thailand
Sue Broad and John Jenkins
Case Study 3: Lessons From Cuba: a Volunteer Army of Ambassadors
Rochelle Spencer
7 Volunteer Tourism: An Existential Perspective
Matthew McDonald and John Wilson
Authenticity in Tourism Studies
Authenticity, Voluntarist Ethics and Tourism
8 Communities as More than ‘Other’ in Cross-cultural Volunteer Tourism
The Changing Nature of Tourist Privilege over Host in Volunteer Tourism
The Othering of Local Communities through Tourism
9 Looking at the Future of Volunteer Tourism: Commodification, Altruism and Accreditation
Altruism (is not a Dirty Word)
The Role of Accreditation in the Future of Volunteer Tourism
A Final Word: Expanding the Research Agenda for Volunteer Tourism
About the Authors
Nancy Gard McGehee, PhD, J. Willard and Alice Marriott Junior Faculty Fellow in Hospitality Management, 363A Wallace Hall Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA; E-mail: [email protected]
Stephen Leslie Wearing, School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 1 Lindfield, 2070 NSW, Australia; E-mail: [email protected]
Guest Contributors
Simone Grabowski is a PhD candidate in the UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; E-mail: [email protected]
Matthew McDonald is a visiting research fellow in the Graduate School of Psychology, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, and a chartered member of the British Psychological Society. He is the author and co-author of a number of books, the most recent including Critical Social Psychology: An Introduction, 2nd edition (with Brendan Gough and Marjella McFadden; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Epiphanies: An Existential Philosophical and Psychological Inquiry (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009). E-mail: [email protected]
John Wilson is an existential counsellor in the Graduate School of Psychology at Assumption University, Bangkok. He has a special interest in continental philosophy.
Preface
This book revisits and further develops the topics and themes covered in Volunteer Tourism: Experiences That Make a Difference, written over 10 years ago. In Volunteer Tourism, Wearing attempted to develop greater conceptual clarification around the notion of ‘alternative tourism’ with a specific focus on tourists
