Personal Transformation Through Volunteer Tourism: The Evidence of Asian Students

Pan, Tze-Jen

doi:10.1177/1096348014538048

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“…Chen, Bao, and Huang 2014a; G. Chen and Huang 2017; Pearce and Foster 2007), stress management (e.g., Pan 2012, 2017), self-motivation (Pearce and Foster 2007), and language and everyday life (e.g., Bui, Wilkins, and Lee 2013a, 2013b; Prideaux and Shiga 2007).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

Bao

Huang

2018

Journal of Travel Research

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Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), this study aims to advance the theoretical understanding of backpacker personal development (BPD) by examining its relationships with two important social-psychological constructs, that is, generalized self-efficacy (GSE) and self-esteem (SE). Using two samples from different cultural groups (Chinese backpackers, n=230; Western backpackers, n=242) and applying the partial least squares structural equation modeling, the study found that among Chinese backpackers, skill development positively influenced GSE while worldview changes negatively influenced SE. For Western backpackers, capability development and emotional adjustment positively influenced their GSE. The positive effects of GSE on SE were confirmed in both samples. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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“…Chen, Bao, and Huang 2014a; G. Chen and Huang 2017; Holloway, Green, and Holloway 2011; Pan 2017; Zhu 2007).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

Bao

Huang

2018

Journal of Travel Research

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“…In addition to promoting the SDGs, volunteer tourism experiences are touted to lead to personal transformation (Pan 2017), de-commodify tourism (Coren and Gray 2012), promote poverty reduction (Brown et al 2007), and social activism (McGehee and Santos 2005). To achieve these laudable objectives Soc.…”

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Sustainable Community Development or Voluntourism: Sustainable Housing in Rural Maharashtra

Melles

2018

Social Sciences

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Volunteer tourism (‘voluntourism’) packages development and poverty as culturally exotic and ethical experiences for tourists from industrialized countries. Among the various sectors promoting voluntourism, university sector short term study abroad tours network voluntourism agencies, local actors (e.g., NGOs), universities, and government funding to offer students ‘life changing’ community sustainable development experiences. Alongside the purported benefits for all stakeholders, recent criticism points to the commodification of development and poverty through such tours and multiple pernicious effects of such travel, especially the failure to deliver community impact. Given the significant financial, political, and other interests involved, monitoring and evaluating such initiatives against transparent independent sustainability principles has proved complicated. Case studies employing ethical covert research, fieldwork, and secondary data analysis offer one approach. This case study of a purported sustainable housing project in rural Maharashtra, involving a bilateral university-government-local NGO voluntourism ecosystem lead by an Australian Green NGO (AGC) analyses the multiple gaps between participatory community sustainable development and voluntourism. This case study employs content analysis of project reports, visual data from a field visit, recent village documentary analysis, anonymized email communication, and secondary analysis of contextual data to evaluate the claims of participatory sustainable development and project outcomes of a bilateral NGO voluntourism housing project. The study findings signal lack of financial transparency, incompetent assessment of material needs, limited local participation and control, and failure to deliver on objectives. The conclusion recommends that socially responsible short-term international exchanges should be carefully monitored and exchanges should prefer knowledge exchange.

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“…As viagens estão entre as experiências capazes de produzir reflexões, mudanças e transformações. Esse tema, viagens e transformações, tem sido discutido em diferentes contextos como, por exemplo, viagens de mochileiros (Noy, 2004), viagens de peregrinação (Devereux & Carnegie, 2006), viagens com caminhadas de longa distância (Saunders et al, 2013), viagens de intercâmbio de estudantes em países estrangeiros (Brown, 2009) e ainda as transformações a partir de experiências de turismo sustentável (Pope, 2018) e do turismo voluntário (Pan, 2017;Almeida & Casotti, 2015).…”

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Viagens que Transformam a Condição Existencial

Abreu

Casotti

2020

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O turismo pode figurar como uma atividade catalisadora para mudanças positivas na vida dos idosos ao proporcionar possibilidades de socialização, fuga da rotina, conhecimento de novas realidades e culturas. O presente trabalho utiliza o cinema para investigar representações dos idosos e narrativas sobre processos de transformação em filmes com roteiros centrados em experiências de viagens. A análise de textos culturais tais como músicas, livros, propagandas, programas de televisão e filmes contribui para o entendimento de normas e padrões sociais existentes. Esse tipo de pesquisa ainda é pouco explorado no campo do turismo, mas sabe-se que o cinema se tornou uma arte universal capaz de revelar profundos e íntimos aspectos da sociedade através de suas narrativas e representações. Para análise de conteúdo foram selecionados quatro filmes que ligavam idosos, viagens e transformação: “Antes de Partir (2008)”, “O Exótico Hotel Marigold (2011)”, “Última Viagem a Vegas (2013)” e “Por Aqui e por Ali (2015)”. Posteriormente, foram construídas três categorias de análise: 1) motivação e escolha das experiências; 2) consumo; 3) envelhecimento e estigma. A discussão final está apoiada na lente da filosofia existencial para indicar nas narrativas dos filmes o papel transformador das viagens na vida dos idosos. As viagens são apresentadas como possibilidades de construir uma autenticidade existencial, pois são capazes de diluir sentimentos negativos tais como ansiedade, depressão e isolamento físico e psíquico.

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Personal Transformation Through Volunteer Tourism: The Evidence of Asian Students

Cited by 27 publications

References 65 publications

Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

Sustainable Community Development or Voluntourism: Sustainable Housing in Rural Maharashtra

Viagens que Transformam a Condição Existencial

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