Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective

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dc.contributor.authorZahra, Anne Louise
dc.contributor.authorMcGehee, Nancy Gard
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T20:02:50Z
dc.date.available2013-03-20T20:02:50Z
dc.date.copyright2013-07
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the impact of volunteer tourism on host communities utilising a community capitals perspective. A research design that includes focus groups, interviews and website analysis targets a cluster of communities that have hosted NGO run volunteer tourism programs in the Philippines for over twenty years. Flora's (2004) community capitals framework is applied to delineate a broad spectrum of impacts resulting from volunteer tourism. This framework accounts for political, built, natural, financial, human, cultural, and social (bridging and bonding) capitals. The data provides strong evidence that, in this case, volunteer tourists exert bridging social capital that in turn impacts every form of community capital. The study also reveals two additional forms of capital: welfare and personal.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationZahra, A., & McGehee, N. G. (2013). Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective. Annals of Tourism Research, 42, 22-45.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.annals.2013.01.008en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn0160-7383
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/7381
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevieren_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfAnnals of Tourism Researchen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofAnnals of Tourism Research
dc.subjectBridging and bonding social capitalen_NZ
dc.subjectCommunity capitalen_NZ
dc.subjectNetworks viewen_NZ
dc.subjectVolunteer tourismen_NZ
dc.titleVolunteer tourism: A host community capital perspectiveen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page22en_NZ
pubs.elements-id38287
pubs.end-page45en_NZ
pubs.volume42en_NZ
uow.identifier.article-noCen_NZ
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