Table of Contents
Introduction
Data Sources
What is Volunteer Tourism?
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- Tourism
- Volunteerism
- Volunteer tourism
- Definitions
- Principles and guidelines
Market Characteristics
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- Retiree Generation and Baby Boomers
- Generation X
- Generation Y
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- Figure 1: Motivation for Australian Generation Y volunteer leisure travellers, April 2008
- Gappers
- Families
- Traveller philanthropy
- Corporate travel or team building
- Scientific and academic volunteers
Market Size and Trends
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- Profiles of main source markets
- Western Europe
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- Figure 2: Total voluntary work holidays in the UK, 2006 and 2007
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- Figure 3: International versus domestic voluntary work holidays in the UK, 2006
- US
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- Figure 4: US professionals who would consider taking a leave from the workforce, 2007
- Australia
Destinations Overview
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- Popular volunteer tourism destinations
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- Figure 5: Most desired international destinations for US-based volunteer tourists, 2007
- Figure 6: Most popular overseas destinations for UK-based volunteer tourists, 2007
- Africa and the Middle East
- Central and South America
- Europe
- North America
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- Figure 7: Top ten destination states for long-distance volunteers, 2007
Typical Volunteer Tourism Activities
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- Figure 8: Most popular volunteer tourism activities for US-based volunteer tourists, 2008
- Construction
- Teaching
- Health-related assistance
- Disaster relief
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Key Volunteer Tourism Market Players
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- The partnership challenge
- Volunteer-sending organisations
- Cross-Cultural Solutions
- Earthwatch
- Global Vision International (see Case Studies of Volunteer Tourism Providers)
- Global Volunteers
- i-to-i
- Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO)
- Other volunteer-sending organisations
- Volunteer-receiving agencies
- Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI)
- National Trust (UK)
Hotels, Cruise Lines, Airlines and Travel Distributors – innovation in volunteer tourism
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- Hotels
- Cruise lines
- Airlines
- Travel distributors
- Web 2.0, social networking, blogs and electronic media
Volunteer Tourism Associations and Electronic Information Sources
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- Volunteer tourism associations
- Blogs
- E-information sources
Case Studies of Volunteer Tourism Providers
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- Global Vision International
- Industry comment: interview with Richard Walton, director and founder, GVI International
- Bridge Linguatec, Inc; Bridge Volunteers and Volunteer Adventures
- Industry comment: interview with Jean-Marc Alberola, president, Bridge Linguatec, Inc
What Next?
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- Credibility issues
- Travelling closer to home
- Continued market growth
- Blurred boundaries in the industry
- Age-specific volunteer tourism products
- Social networks and Web 2.0
- Diversification of volunteer service travel options
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