Motivation and socio-cultural sustainability of voluntourism

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dc.contributor.authorAlomari, Thabit
dc.contributor.supervisorNewberry, Janice C.
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-31T03:45:01Z
dc.date.available2013-10-31T03:45:01Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionviii, 122 leaves : ill. ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstractVolunteer tourism (voluntourism) has been described as an alternative form of tourism to mass tourism. It has been suggested that understanding the motivations of voluntourists might lead to a better understanding of the socio-cultural dimension of voluntourism sustainability. The aim of this thesis is to identify the key motives of voluntourists and how these motives affect the socio-cultural sustainability of a society. Virtual ethnography, observation, and semi-structured interviews were employed in order to collect the research data from Eden Valley – a Canadian First Nation reserve, Global Citizen Network (GCN) – a voluntourism organiser, and voluntourists who took part in previous volunteering trips. The study found that authenticity, cultural concerns, the search for unique experience, helping the ‘other’, and self-healing are the key motives that drive travellers to participate in voluntourism projects. The data collected show that voluntourism has a greater positive socio-cultural impact on targeted communities than mass-tourism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3295
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology, c2012en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Anthropologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectVolunteer tourismen_US
dc.subjectVolunteer tourism -- Social aspectsen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleMotivation and socio-cultural sustainability of voluntourismen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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