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  • All for a good cause? The blurred boundaries of volunteering and tourism 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen (CABI, 2008)
    Research has provided a wealth of typological models that help classify tourist behaviours. These taxonomies have been developed based on a broad range of increasingly sophisticated criteria associated with social roles, ...
  • Gap year Travel Alternatives: Gen-Y, Volunteer Tourism and Global Citizenship 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen (Goodfellow Publishers, 2011)
    Accounting for over one-twelfth of world trade and by far the largest movement of people across borders, international travel has been promoted by governments and the tourism industry as an important facilitator of global ...
  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Volunteer Tourism 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen; Benson Angela (Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, 2009)
  • The volunteer's journey through leisure into the self 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen; Deville Adrian (CABI, 2008)
    Volunteer tourism is in essence a form of leisure behaviour. Perceived freedom and choice (Neulinger, 1974), intrinsic motivation (Iso-Ahola, 1982), satisfaction and enjoyment (Kaplan, 1975), and identity and selfhood ...
  • Volunteer tourism 
    Wearing Stephen; Lyons K.; Snead Suzanne (Goodfellow Publishers Ltd, 2010)
    The aim of this chapter is to provide students with a critical understanding of the phenomenon of volunteer tourism. It will consider how volunteer tourism occurs in diverse community settings with a particular emphasis ...
  • Volunteer tourism as alternative tourism: Journeys beyond otherness 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen (CABI, 2008)
    Seismic changes in leisure time, disposable income, mobility and communication technologies have created a context in which tourism has thrived. Grown and diversified to encompass a wide array of leisure travel behaviours ...