Volunteer Tourism—Altruism or Mere Tourism?

By Pekka Mustonen. 2007

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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In Demography

1. Pavlos Paraskevaidis
2. R. Law
3. Rosanna Leung
4. Konstantinos Andriotis

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Rosanna Leung
2. Pavlos Paraskevaidis
3. R. Law
4. Konstantinos Andriotis
5. Haiyan Song
6. Gang Li
7. Dimitrios Buhalis
8. Fiona X. Yang

In Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

1. Pavlos Paraskevaidis
2. R. Law
3. Rosanna Leung
4. Konstantinos Andriotis
5. Haiyan Song
6. Gang Li
7. Cheng-Hua Wang
8. Kuan-Yu Chen

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Personality Research in the Tourism and Hospitality Context (2010, background): “Research shows that female consumers concerned with environmental and animal rights issues are more likely to become vegetarians ( Trocchia & Janda, 2003 ), and tourists can achieve self-actualization by participating in volunteer tourism activities ( Mustonen, 2007 ).”
• Altruism in tourism: Social Exchange Theory vs Altruistic Surplus Phenomenon in host volunteering (2017, background): “From a tourism perspective, true altruism has mainly been conceptualized as a purely motivated behavior of volunteer tourists (Mustonen, 2007; Wearing & McGehee, 2013) and the quest for true altruism in host volunteering seems to be absent from tourism research (Anderson & Cairncross, 2005; Holmes…”