‘It fitted in with our lifestyle’: an investigation into episodic volunteering in the tourism sector

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‘It fitted in with our lifestyle’: an investigation into episodic volunteering in the tourism sector

Tourism organizations are dependent on volunteers to deliver visitor services. Evidence suggests that volunteering is changing with a decline in volunteer hours per head and a rise in episodic forms of volunteering. This paper uses data from interviews with both regular and episodic volunteers in to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holmes, Kirsten
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41519

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