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- Empowering the Community or Escape Daily Routine—A Voluntourism PerspectivePublication . Abreu, José; Ferreira, Marisa R.; Casais, BeatrizOn 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.
- "Going with the flaw" a Voluntourism PerspectivePublication . Abreu, José; Ferreira, MarisaGenerally defined as an activity in which people decide to volunteer in development or conservation projects, voluntourism is one of the fastest growing alternative tourism markets, arousing interest among several different people and creating an increasing number of volunteers. This development is being used by many organizations as a way of using volpertise as an important asset. Our work analyses and describes the concept of voluntourism, as well as the motivations that drives the volunteers, and the impacts or benefits of the experience of their projects in the host community and in themselves. We did a literature review, firstly using a bibliometric analysis where three main concepts were found, to deeply understand and categorize the generic concept. Secondly, we did ten exploratory online interviews to volunteers with experiences in international volunteering programs and after a quantitative study with 65 Portuguese international volunteers. The results show that this topic has become a trend in recent years and that understanding the motivations of volunteers as well as the benefits and impacts of the projects is essential to the development of voluntourism and can be used by the projects managers to deeply understand the volunteers.
- What we know about volunteer tourism - an approach to motivations and impactsPublication . Abreu, José; Ferreira, Marisa R.Generally defined as an activity in which people decide to volunteer in development or conservation projects, voluntourism is one of the most fast-growing alternative tourism markets, arousing interest from several different people and creating an increasing number of volunteers. These developments are being used by many organisations as a way of using volunteers’ expertise as important benefits. Our paper analyses and describes the concept of voluntourism, as well as the motivations that drive the volunteers, and the impacts or benefits of their projects’ experience in the host community and in themselves. We did a literature review, firstly using a bibliometric analysis, to deeply understand and categorise the generic concept. Secondly, we did ten exploratory online interviews/questionnaires to volunteers with experiences in international volunteering programs. The results show that this topic has become a trend in recent years and that understanding the motivations of volunteers as well as the benefits and impacts of the projects are essential to the development of voluntourism.