| Name: | Description: | Size: | Format: | |
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| DM_Jose Abreu _MGIE_2019 | 2.55 MB | Adobe PDF |
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Generally 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.
Description
Dissertação de Mestrado em Gestão e Internacionalização de Empresas
Keywords
Voluntourism Volunteers International Bibliometric Qualitative Quantitative
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão