Volunteer tourism and gender: A feminist research agenda

Tourism and Hospitality Research - Tập 21 Số 4 - Trang 461-472 - 2021
Marta Salvador-Almela1, Núria Abellan Calvet2
1Independent researcher, focused on anthropology, tourism and development, and volunteer tourism
2Independent researcher, focused on tourism and gender perspective, and LGBTQ tourism

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The popularity of volunteer tourism has increased since the 1990s, as have empirical studies and academic debates on the topic. Despite the broad topics covered – such as volunteers’ motivations, impacts on the local community, and the role of the sending organisations – approaches based on gender differences and feminism are still uncommon among critical tourism studies. Through a semi-systematic literature review, a variety of topics emerged, such as the gendered reproduction of colonial dynamics in voluntourism; volunteer tourists’ motivations, preferences and differences according to gender; and the expectations around traditional gender roles faced by volunteers, the local community and the sending organisations. This paper proposes a feminist research agenda where knowledge gaps and future lines of investigation are illustrated. Finally, feminist standpoint theory and its implications are discussed to offer a more in-depth exploration of the transformation of gender relationships in voluntourism experiences.

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Tourism and Hospitality Research

Tập 21 Số 4

461-472

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