کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1007634 1482260 2012 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Gap year volunteer tourism: Myths of Global Citizenship?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری گردشگری، اوقات فراغت و مدیریت هتلداری
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Gap year volunteer tourism: Myths of Global Citizenship?
چکیده انگلیسی

The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international ‘gap year’ travel programs and policies. Governments and industry alike promote gap year travel uncritically as a guaranteed pathway to the development of inclusive ideologies associated with global citizenship. In this paper we examine how the neoliberalist context in which gap year travel programs have proliferated does little to promote tolerance. We then consider the recent growth of ‘volunteer tourism’ as an alternative gap year youth travel experience and explore how the implied resistance to self-serving neoliberalist values that it engenders can become coopted by neoliberalism.


► Gap year youth travel programs have proliferated in a neoliberalist context.
► Gap year volunteer tourism programs claim to promote tolerance and altruism.
► Volunteer tourism has been unable to resist self-serving neoliberalist values.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Annals of Tourism Research - Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 361–378
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