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Tourism Geographies
An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment
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The Geography of Volunteer Tourism: Place Matters

Pages 257-279 | Published online: 08 Jun 2011

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Raweewan Proyrungroj. (2023) Motivations of international volunteer tourists working with elephants in Thailand. Tourism Recreation Research 48:3, pages 432-448.
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Wen Xu & Garth Stahl. (2023) ‘Your skin is like crocodile’s’: a case study of an African wài guó student in China. Globalisation, Societies and Education 0:0, pages 1-12.
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Ingeborg Nordbø, Reidar J. Mykletun, Javier Segovia & Mónica Segovia-Pérez. (2023) Push and pull motivations of international voluntary workers on organic farms (the WWOOFers). Current Issues in Tourism 26:1, pages 137-152.
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Alessandro Inversini, Isabella Rega & Izak van Zyl. (2020) Internet representations of voluntourism fail to effectively integrate tourism and volunteering. Tourism Geographies 22:1, pages 1-21.
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Jacob Henry. (2019) Directions for volunteer tourism and radical pedagogy. Tourism Geographies 21:4, pages 561-564.
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Rebecca Frilund. (2018) Teasing the boundaries of ‘volunteer tourism’: local NGOs looking for global workforce. Current Issues in Tourism 21:4, pages 355-368.
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Hayley Stainton. (2018) TEFL tourism: the tourist who teaches. Tourism Geographies 20:1, pages 127-143.
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Jessica Steele, Dianne Dredge & Pascal Scherrer. (2017) Monitoring and evaluation practices of volunteer tourism organisations. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 25:11, pages 1674-1690.
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Nick Kontogeorgopoulos. (2017) Forays into the backstage: volunteer tourism and the pursuit of object authenticity. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 15:5, pages 455-475.
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Elisa Burrai, Mary Mostafanezhad & Kevin Hannam. (2017) Moral assemblages of volunteer tourism development in Cusco, Peru. Tourism Geographies 19:3, pages 362-377.
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Cori Jakubiak & Iulia Iordache-Bryant. (2017) Volunteer tourism in Romania as/for global citizenship. Tourism Recreation Research 42:2, pages 212-222.
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Cori Jakubiak. (2016) Ambiguous Aims: English-language Voluntourism as Development. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 15:4, pages 245-258.
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Jamie Gillen. (2014) Tourism and Nation Building at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104:6, pages 1307-1321.
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Jessica Taplin, Dianne Dredge & Pascal Scherrer. (2014) Monitoring and evaluating volunteer tourism: a review and analytical framework. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 22:6, pages 874-897.
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Victoria Louise Smith & Xavier Font. (2014) Volunteer tourism, greenwashing and understanding responsible marketing using market signalling theory. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 22:6, pages 942-963.
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Sarath A. Nonis & Clint Relyea. (2014) Identifying College Students Likely to Participate in a Travel Abroad Volunteer Project. Journal of Teaching in International Business 25:2, pages 83-96.
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Mary Mostafanezhad. (2013) The Geography of Compassion in Volunteer Tourism. Tourism Geographies 15:2, pages 318-337.
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Eveline Dürr. (2012) Encounters over Garbage: Tourists and Lifestyle Migrants in Mexico. Tourism Geographies 14:2, pages 339-355.
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Daniel Guttentag. (2012) Volunteer Tourism has Gone Commercial: The Reasons and the Implications. Tourism Recreation Research 37:3, pages 273-275.
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Sharon J. McLennan & Johanna Thomas-Maude. (2023) Othering or authenticity?: Voluntourism and cultural exchange in Peru and Fiji. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 56, pages 155-162.
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Netta Kahana. (2023) The self-society duality in volunteer tourism: An analytical framework for the (post-)pandemic era. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 55, pages 50-58.
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Veronika Kadomskaia, Jan Brace-Govan & Angela Gracia B. Cruz. (2021) Ambivalence in Volunteer Tourism: Toward Decolonization. Australasian Marketing Journal 31:1, pages 2-12.
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Serena Lucrezi, Charmaine Danielle Cilliers & Petrus van der Merwe. (2022) Clustering marine wildlife voluntourism to evaluate its potential for southern Africa and beyond. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 40, pages 100571.
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Aishwarya Venkittaraman, Junaid KC & Rakesh Kumar Dhodi. (2022) Voluntourism In Puducherry; Exploring Motivation, Experience, Satisfaction And Revisit Intentions Of Tourists. PUSA Journal of Hospitality and Applied Sciences 8:2, pages 33-42.
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Li Jiang, Thomas Eck & Soyoung An. (2022) A Study on the Effect of Emotional Solidarity on Memorable Tourism Experience and Destination Loyalty in Volunteer Tourism. SAGE Open 12:1, pages 215824402210872.
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Sara Kinsbergen, Esther Konijn, Simon Kuijpers‐Heezemans, Gabriëlle op 't Hoog, Dirk‐Jan Koch & Mieke Molthof. (2021) Informalisation of international volunteering: A new analytical framework explaining differential impacts of the ‘orphanage tourism’ debate in the Netherlands. Journal of International Development 33:8, pages 1304-1320.
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Esi Akyere Mensah, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah & Felix Elvis Otoo. (2021) Re-conceptualizing volunteer tourism organizations roles: A host perspective. Tourism Management Perspectives 37, pages 100785.
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Cori Jakubiak. (2019) “English Is Out There—You Have to Get with the Program”: Linguistic Instrumentalism, Global Citizenship Education, and English‐Language Voluntourism. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 51:2, pages 212-232.
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Sarah Becklake. (2019) The Role of NGOs in Touristic Securitization: The Case of La Antigua Guatemala. Space and Culture 23:1, pages 34-47.
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Veronika Kadomskaia, Jan Brace-Govan & Angela Gracia B. Cruz. 2020. Marketization. Marketization 259 283 .
Joshua D. Bernstein & Kyle M. Woosnam. (2019) Same same but different: Distinguishing what it means to teach English as a foreign language within the context of volunteer tourism. Tourism Management 72, pages 427-436.
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Sallie Yea. (2018) Helping from home: Singaporean youth volunteers with migrant-rights and human-trafficking NGOs in Singapore. The Geographical Journal 184:2, pages 169-178.
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Kim G. Roques, Susan K. Jacobson & Robert A. McCleery. (2018) Assessing contributions of volunteer tourism to ecosystem research and conservation in southern Africa. Ecosystem Services 30, pages 382-390.
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Nina Laurie & Matt Baillie Smith. (2018) Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43:1, pages 95-109.
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Hayley Stainton. (2018) The commodification of English language teaching in tourism: A sustainable solution?. Tourism Management Perspectives 25, pages 123-130.
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Jessica Steele & Dianne Dredge. (2017) The liquid organization of volunteer tourism: Implications for responsibility. International Journal of Tourism Research 19:6, pages 715-726.
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Nick Kontogeorgopoulos. (2017) Finding oneself while discovering others: An existential perspective on volunteer tourism in Thailand. Annals of Tourism Research 65, pages 1-12.
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Jamie Gillen. (2016) Urbanizing existential authenticity: Motorbike tourism in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Tourist Studies 16:3, pages 258-275.
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Daniel Gilfillan. (2015) Short-Term Volunteering and International Development: An Evaluation Framework for Volunteer Tourism. Tourism Analysis 20:6, pages 607-618.
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Ferdi R.M. Klaver. (2015) A clash with volunteer tourists? An extreme case study in Guatemala. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 7:2, pages 189-200.
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Jayne M. Rogerson & David Slater. (2014) Urban Volunteer Tourism: Orphanages in Johannesburg. Urban Forum 25:4, pages 483-499.
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William Terry. (2014) Solving labor problems and building capacity in sustainable agriculture through volunteer tourism. Annals of Tourism Research 49, pages 94-107.
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Benjamin J Lough & Amanda Moore McBride. (2014) Navigating the boundaries of active global citizenship. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39:3, pages 457-469.
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Ksenia Kirillova, Bridget M. Bordelon & David M. Pearlman. (2014) A Comparison of Expenditures Between New Orleans Volunteer and Leisure Tourists: Implications for Sustainability. Tourism Analysis 19:2, pages 173-184.
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Mary Mostafanezhad. (2013) THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN VOLUNTEER TOURISM. Annals of Tourism Research 43, pages 150-169.
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