Introduction
Volunteer tourism is also known as Voluntourism. Voluntourism is when tourists combine volunteering work with travel. It is growing rapidly in the tourism industry in the recent years. It is estimated that there are a total of 1.6 million volunteer tourists, spending about $1.7-2.6 billion each year. The average cost for each volunteer is about $3000 per trip. (Marketing, 2008)
Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) started off in 1958 to improve in areas such as education and accommodation after World War Two. However, it was only later in the 1990s where people started accepting volunteer holidays as a part of the tourism sector. The term “Voluntourism” was created in 1998 by the Nevada Board of Tourism. (VolunteerTourismViews, Some …show more content…
Since the volunteers are mostly educated, they can help to teach some basic skills and English to the children that will benefit them when they go out to work in the future. They can also help to take care of the orphans in the orphanage and play with them, let them know that there are still people who cares and loves them. Also, the trained volunteers can provide medical service to the locals such as health screening. Voluntourism is also not just about helping people but also helping wildlife through voluntourism activities such as saving the …show more content…
(VolunteerTourismViews, What is the size of the voluntourism market, n.d.) This shows that volunteers are willing to spend more time on voluntourism as compared to the usual 1-2 weeks in other tourism. From the ATTA report in 2012, it was found out that there have been an improvement in gender equality with 53.21% of the volunteers were female and 46.79% of them were male. (M., 2012) This shows that the gender percentage in voluntourism now is almost equal. Also, out of the different types of projects, the most popular projects are working with children and education, with a percentage of 15.27% each. Environmental protection at 13.99% and wildlife recovery and local job creation at 10.18% each. Lastly, clean water projects at 7.89%. (M.,
Volunteer tourism is also known as Voluntourism. Voluntourism is when tourists combine volunteering work with travel. It is growing rapidly in the tourism industry in the recent years. It is estimated that there are a total of 1.6 million volunteer tourists, spending about $1.7-2.6 billion each year. The average cost for each volunteer is about $3000 per trip. (Marketing, 2008)
Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) started off in 1958 to improve in areas such as education and accommodation after World War Two. However, it was only later in the 1990s where people started accepting volunteer holidays as a part of the tourism sector. The term “Voluntourism” was created in 1998 by the Nevada Board of Tourism. (VolunteerTourismViews, Some …show more content…
Since the volunteers are mostly educated, they can help to teach some basic skills and English to the children that will benefit them when they go out to work in the future. They can also help to take care of the orphans in the orphanage and play with them, let them know that there are still people who cares and loves them. Also, the trained volunteers can provide medical service to the locals such as health screening. Voluntourism is also not just about helping people but also helping wildlife through voluntourism activities such as saving the …show more content…
(VolunteerTourismViews, What is the size of the voluntourism market, n.d.) This shows that volunteers are willing to spend more time on voluntourism as compared to the usual 1-2 weeks in other tourism. From the ATTA report in 2012, it was found out that there have been an improvement in gender equality with 53.21% of the volunteers were female and 46.79% of them were male. (M., 2012) This shows that the gender percentage in voluntourism now is almost equal. Also, out of the different types of projects, the most popular projects are working with children and education, with a percentage of 15.27% each. Environmental protection at 13.99% and wildlife recovery and local job creation at 10.18% each. Lastly, clean water projects at 7.89%. (M.,