The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism

ISBN-13: 9780367417093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 526 str.

Kirsten Holmes; Leonie Lockstone-Binney; Karen A. Smith

Opis

This timely handbook examines the most contemporary, controversial and cutting-edge issues related to the involvement of volunteers in the fields of events, sport and tourism.

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1: Introduction. Part 1: Disciplinary Approaches to Volunteering. 2: Economics and volunteering. 3: Geography, place and international development volunteering. 4: How a political economy lens can help assess and improve conservation volunteer tourism. 5: Psychology of volunteering. 6: Volunteering in international sports events from a public administration perspective. Part 2: Volunteering in Tourism and Sport. 7: Destination service volunteering. 8: Visitor attractions: volunteering in cultural heritage tourism in aotearoa new zealand. 9: Herding 6,000 volunteers. 10: Deconstructing volunteer tourism. 11: The freefall of volunteer leaders in Australian grassroots associations. 12: Volunteering in community sports organisations and associations. Part 3: Volunteering at Events. 13: Enhancing volunteer skills through mega sports events: evidence from the London 2012 Olympic Games. 14: London, Vancouver and PyeongChang Olympics: a comparison of volunteer motivations. 15: Volunteering at community events: from volunteering for an event to volunteering as an event. 16: Volunteering and charity fundraising events. 17: Helping through sport and events within corporate volunteering: benefits for volunteers and companies. 18: Volunteering at business events: insights from China. Part 4: Managing Volunteers. 19: Designing a volunteer program. 20: Volunteer stewardship management models for volunteer programs. 21: Volunteering motivation. 22: Volunteer recruitment and selection: evidence from the visitor attraction sector. 23: Exploring retention and rewards in community sport volunteering. 24: The role of organisational culture in sustaining volunteers at heritage attractions: the case of the Puffing Billy railway. Part 5: Impacts and Legacies of Volunteering. 25: Understanding volunteering impact and legacy, a sustainability approach. 26: "It's just a fun day out really." Perceptions of volunteering and mega event volunteer legacy. 27: Creating a social legacy from event volunteering. 28: Widening the scope of evaluating volunteer tourism: beyond impact measurement. Part 6: Critical Issues in Volunteering. 29: Ethics of volunteering in tourism: ethics of the heart. 30: Diversity and inclusion in sport volunteering. 31: Intercultural learning or just having fun? What volunteer tourism providers can learn from educational volunteering programmes to enhance intercultural competencies. 32: Service learning and volunteering: A case study of service learning in Chinese business events volunteering. 33: Volunteering and obligation: positive and negative. 34: Glocal citizenship: lofty ideals in regional space. Part 7: New Directions in Volunteering Research. 35: Profiling research on volunteering in events, sport and tourism. 36: Trends in volunteering. 37: Informal volunteering. 38: Methods for researching volunteers. 39: The future of volunteering and work.