Sökning: "volunteer tourism"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 41 uppsatser innehållade orden volunteer tourism.

1. 21. "To help others" : An explorative case study about how help is described and defined by volunteer tourists working with children and teenagers in Brazil.

   Master-uppsats, Ersta Sköndal högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskap

   Författare :Ingrid Häggblom; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Volunteer tourism; Help; Aid; Development; Brazil; Post-colonialism;

   Sammanfattning : Volunteer tourism is a popular way for young Westerners to discover the world and at the same take on the role as an international aid worker. For a short time they get an opportunity to improve the life conditions of people in development countries and get to know a new culture. LÄS MER

3. 22. Navigating Unequal Power Relations: Examining Intimacy and Neo-Colonial Tendencies in Volunteer Tourism

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Författare :Jeppe Pontoppidan; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

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4. 23. Cultural Gaze? - Understanding Japanese and German Perceptions of Kiruna as a Tourist Destination (Applying Volunteer Employed Photography)

   Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

   Författare :Tomoya Suzuki; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Tourism; Photography; Volunteer-Employed Photography VEP ; Tourist Gaze; Hermeneutic Circle; Culture; Nationality; Northern Sweden;

   Sammanfattning : Photography and tourism have been developing in parallel with each other and leaving memories of the trip in photographs still remains as a significant part of traveling today. Tourist photograph is an effective tool to display the way tourists see the destination they visited. LÄS MER

5. 24. Volunteer tourism : A critical explorative analysis from the tour operators' perspective

   Magister-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för turismvetenskap och geografi

   Författare :Lydia Anna Bremen; [2015]
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   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

7. 25. The Consumer Practice of Volunteer Tourism: A Fine Line between Niche Leisure Practice and New Social Movement

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Susanne Krebs; Aleksandra Rakonjac; [2014]
   Nyckelord :political consumerism; new social movement theory; consumer culture theory; volunteer tourism; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this research is to investigate the sociocultural discourses that are ascribed to the fairly new, yet increasingly popular consumer practice of volunteer tourism. Thereby, we aim to examine the extent to which volunteer tourism correlates with new social movements using Melucci (1989) and Touraine’s (1981) “three core representational elements” of every social movement: a common goal, common characteristics of an activists’ self-identity and a common adversary. LÄS MER