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Title Journeys of discovery in volunteer tourism : international case study perspectives / edited by Kevin D. Lyons and Stephen Wearing
Published Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 217 pages)
Series CAB books
CAB books
Contents Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Journeys Beyond Otherness: Communities, Culture and Power; Part II: Inward Journeys: Motivations, Needs and the Self; Part III: Journeys at the Edge: Overlaps and Ambiguities; Index
Summary Offers an insight into how volunteer tourism is growing and developing. This title includes case studies from researchers in the field which explore the experiences of the volunteer tourist and the relationships between volunteers and host communities and commercial, non-commercial and government entities involved in volunteer tourism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Volunteer tourism -- Case studies
Tourism -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Volunteer Work.
Alternative tourism.
Case studies.
Host guest relations.
Motivation.
Psychosocial aspects.
Sociology of tourism.
Tourism.
Tourism theory.
Volunteers.
Tourism
Volunteer tourism
Turism.
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Lyons, Kevin D.
Wearing, Stephen.
ISBN 1845933818
9781845933814
1281244406
9781281244406