The contribution of volunteers to tourism

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The contribution of volunteers to tourism

The academic study of the contribution that volunteers make to tourism provision had been largely neglected (Uriely, Reichel & Ron, 2003). Within the field of tourism studies, there is a growing literature on volunteer tourism, where tourists take part in ecological of community aid projects in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Holmes, Kirsten, Smith, K.
Other Authors:	Georgios Papageorgiou
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	School of Management, University of Surrey 2006
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39402

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