Archive for July, 2010
VolunTourism & Corporate Return On “Involvement” (RO”I”)
A new subscriber from Malaysia sent in a question regarding how to promote voluntourism to corporations. A timely question indeed, given that corporate profits are beginning to reassert themselves following the economic downturn that started in 2007-08.
There is really one axiom to keep in mind when considering how to promote voluntourism to corporations and that [...]
Is It Time To Draft A VolunTourists’ Bill Of Rights?
Editor’s Note: This past week, the U.S. Government announced that it would be creating a new Consumer Protection Agency to protect the rights of consumers as part of a pre-emptive measure to avoid a repeat of the recent financial meltdown. Have we reached a point in the development of voluntourism that the VolunTourism Community should [...]
VolunTourism: The “NEW” Travel Trend??
On 2 July 2010, Randy LeGrant, of Geovisions, offered up a post entitled “Ever Heard of Voluntourism? Stick A Thousand Needles In My Eye.” The post made me chuckle, on many levels, but I liked this bit most of all:
If anyone who types can go to their favorite search engine and type in “voluntourism” and [...]
The 2011 Trifecta
Editor’s Note: 21 July 2010: It’s Opening Day at Del Mar. The track is being groomed; the horses are being fed, watered, and hosed-down; women of all ages are scanning closets for that perfect sundress to wear and the ‘over-the-top’ hat to match; and somewhere, unbeknownst to her/him, someone is in readiness to wager a [...]
Short-Term Or Long-Term: Is One Better Than The Other?
Some of you may have read Dr. Nancy McGehee’s Research Forum in the latest issue of The VolunTourist Newsletter. She hosted Ms. Jenny Morgan, of the Overseas Development Institute, who wrote her master’s thesis on volunteer tourism and offered a summary of her research for volume six, issue two: “Volunteer Tourism: What Are The Benefits [...]