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      Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective

      Zahra, Anne Louise; McGehee, Nancy Gard
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       10.1016/j.annals.2013.01.008
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      Zahra, A., & McGehee, N. G. (2013). Volunteer tourism: A host community capital perspective. Annals of Tourism Research, 42, 22-45.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7381
      Abstract
      This 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.
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      2013
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      Journal Article
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      Elsevier
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