Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective

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Autor(a) principal: Abreu, José
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Ferreira, Marisa R., Casais, Beatriz Graça Luz
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/76069
Resumo: On the edges of tourism, volunteering, and travel, we find voluntourism with tourists, mainly from high-income countries, looking for an alternative form of travel that promises sustainable development of destinations. The aim of the paper is to explore voluntourism through motivations and impacts, as well as aggregate different volunteers in categories, in order to better understand this phenomenon. The results of a questionnaire answered by 65 international volunteers show seven motivations and a lack of attention on the local projects. More than half of the volunteers are considered to have short participations in projects, considering the destination as a very important aspect, have minimal skills, and have a passive participation, as a minimal direct contribution. Generically, our research may help to highlight and boost the voluntourism experience, creating positive and transformative changes.
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spelling Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspectiveVoluntourismInternational volunteersNon-profit organizationsMotivationsImpactsScience & TechnologyOn the edges of tourism, volunteering, and travel, we find voluntourism with tourists, mainly from high-income countries, looking for an alternative form of travel that promises sustainable development of destinations. The aim of the paper is to explore voluntourism through motivations and impacts, as well as aggregate different volunteers in categories, in order to better understand this phenomenon. The results of a questionnaire answered by 65 international volunteers show seven motivations and a lack of attention on the local projects. More than half of the volunteers are considered to have short participations in projects, considering the destination as a very important aspect, have minimal skills, and have a passive participation, as a minimal direct contribution. Generically, our research may help to highlight and boost the voluntourism experience, creating positive and transformative changes.Marisa R. Ferreira gratefully acknowledges financial support from FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal), national funding through project UIDB/04728/2020Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)Universidade do MinhoAbreu, JoséFerreira, Marisa R.Casais, Beatriz Graça Luz2021-10-312021-10-31T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/76069engAbreu, J.; Ferreira, M.R.; Casais, B. Empowering the Community or Escape Daily Routine—A Voluntourism Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 12032. https://doi.org/10.3390/su1321120322071-105010.3390/su13211203212032https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/21/12032info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:45:13Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/76069Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:43:01.788118Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
title Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
spellingShingle Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
Abreu, José
Voluntourism
International volunteers
Non-profit organizations
Motivations
Impacts
Science & Technology
title_short Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
title_full Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
title_fullStr Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
title_full_unstemmed Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
title_sort Empowering the community or escape daily routine - a voluntourism perspective
author Abreu, José
author_facet Abreu, José
Ferreira, Marisa R.
Casais, Beatriz Graça Luz
author_role author
author2 Ferreira, Marisa R.
Casais, Beatriz Graça Luz
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Abreu, José
Ferreira, Marisa R.
Casais, Beatriz Graça Luz
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Voluntourism
International volunteers
Non-profit organizations
Motivations
Impacts
Science & Technology
topic Voluntourism
International volunteers
Non-profit organizations
Motivations
Impacts
Science & Technology
description On the edges of tourism, volunteering, and travel, we find voluntourism with tourists, mainly from high-income countries, looking for an alternative form of travel that promises sustainable development of destinations. The aim of the paper is to explore voluntourism through motivations and impacts, as well as aggregate different volunteers in categories, in order to better understand this phenomenon. The results of a questionnaire answered by 65 international volunteers show seven motivations and a lack of attention on the local projects. More than half of the volunteers are considered to have short participations in projects, considering the destination as a very important aspect, have minimal skills, and have a passive participation, as a minimal direct contribution. Generically, our research may help to highlight and boost the voluntourism experience, creating positive and transformative changes.
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Abreu, J.; Ferreira, M.R.; Casais, B. Empowering the Community or Escape Daily Routine—A Voluntourism Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 12032. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112032
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