2007 - The Growth of VolunTourism

Keyboard Roundtable article from e-Volunteerism, Vol. VII, Issue 4, July 2007 - Sept 2007, 11 pages.

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A significant area of growth in recent years has been the phenomenon of 'voluntourism' – traveling somewhere on vacation but using the time to engage in some type of organized volunteer project.  In this Keyboard Roundtable, we seek to find answers as to why this form of volunteering has become so popular, what it takes from volunteer management to coordinate this effort and the potential for even further growth in the future.

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