Ecotourism, natural resource conservation, and local livelihood are one of the most talked-
about issues globally. It is seen as nature-based tourism that addresses two primary …

This paper examines the current state of 'volunteer tourism,'both as a field of study and
modern phenomenon. The foundation of the review rests upon themes initiated over 10 …

Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities analyzes the impacts of mainstream
tourism in first, second and third world countries, and argues the benefits of adopting the …

Current discourse surrounding 'pro-poor tourism', a term emerging out of the writing of UK
researchers in the late 1990s, suggests that tourism can effectively work as a tool to alleviate …

Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular
Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism …

This paper reviews the 30-year evolution of volunteer tourism as phenomenon, industry, and
research area, charting changes in the size, breadth, definition, and the perceived positive …

Responsible tourism has been researched by scholars focusing on various avenues of
responsiveness over the years, however, our understanding of the antecedents and …

Volunteer tourism has been heavily criticised for its negative consequences on destinations
and volunteers, often the direct result of unrealistic demand-led marketing and lack of …

Volunteer ecotourism has been described as an 'ideal'form of decommodified ecotourism
that overcomes problems associated with tourism in general, and ecotourism specifically …

There is more to the globalization of tourism than cross-border flows of customers and
purchasing power. This paper distinguishes four stages and different manifestations of the …