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tourist who takes part involuntourism .
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Examples
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P.S. Take note - you can be a "voluntourist" any time of the year.
Shira Lazar: The New Travel Trend: Voluntourism Shira Lazar 2010
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Tip: Be a "voluntourist" in a country you'd like to visit.
WN.com - Articles related to Cycling in Britain: five great waterways cycle routes 2010
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Tip: Be a "voluntourist" in a country you'd like to visit.
WN.com - Articles related to Goa plans mega tourism circuits with Maharashtra, Karnataka 2010
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Tip: Be a "voluntourist" in a country you'd like to visit.
WN.com - Articles related to Goa plans mega tourism circuits with Maharashtra, Karnataka 2010
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Tip: Be a "voluntourist" in a country you'd like to visit.
WN.com - Articles related to Cycling in Britain: five great waterways cycle routes 2010
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After learning about the organization through a friend, I planned a trip to Guatemala with the intention of being a "voluntourist" for a couple of days.
Maria Russo: Hope Rises at a Malnourished Infant Center in Guatemala Maria Russo 2011
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After learning about the organization through a friend, I planned a trip to Guatemala with the intention of being a "voluntourist" for a couple of days.
Maria Russo: Hope Rises at a Malnourished Infant Center in Guatemala Maria Russo 2011
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Here are 10 voluntourist trips that really help put something back …
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It's true that a voluntourist may gawk at the locals and snap inappropriate photos, but the type of travel he is doing is not defined by these behaviors, but rather the purpose of the travel as designed by the host.
Aaron Ausland: Poverty Tourism Taxonomy 2.0 Aaron Ausland 2010
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Does their measure of ` did that experience work for me 'skew the delicate balance of a positive outcome for all stakeholder groups because the voice of the voluntourist may be the loudest for the organizations who are making or receiving money from the voluntourism marketplace.
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Voluntourists come for a week or two for a “project” — a temporary medical clinic, an orphanage visit or a school construction. A few are celebrities supporting their cause du jour, who drop in to meet locals and witness a project that often bears their name. Others come to teach English during high school, college vacations or during a gap year. Others are sun-seeking vacationers who stay at beachside resorts. Many voluntourists are religious — the sort of people who cite passages from the Bible, the Torah or the Quran that encourage followers to help those in need. There are some volunteers who possess specialized, sought-after skills like ophthalmology, but most do not. Sometimes volunteers do more harm than good.
Unsatisfying as it may be, many voluntourists ought to acknowledge the truth that they, as amateurs, often don’t have much to offer. Perhaps they ought to abandon the assumption that they, simply by being privileged enough to travel the world, are somehow qualified to help ease the world’s ills. Easing global poverty is an enormously complex task. To make so much as a dent requires hard, sustained work, and expertise. Even the experts sometimes get it wrong. If smart, dedicated professionals can fail to achieve lasting progress over a period of years, how then is an untrained vacationer supposed to do so in a matter of days?
March 28, 2016