Gap year volunteer tourism. Myths of Global Citizenship?

Lyons, K; Hanley, J; Wearing, S; Neil, J

Gap year volunteer tourism. Myths of Global Citizenship?

Lyons, K Hanley, J Wearing, S

Neil, J

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Citation:: Annals of Tourism Research, 2012, 39 (1), pp. 361 - 378
Issue Date:: 2012-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Lyons, K	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hanley, J	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wearing, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-059X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Neil, J	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Annals of Tourism Research, 2012, 39 (1), pp. 361 - 378	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0160-7383	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/21997
dc.description.abstract	The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international 'gap year' travel programs and policies. Governments and industry alike promote gap year travel uncritically as a guaranteed pathway to the development of inclusive ideologies associated with global citizenship. In this paper we examine how the neoliberalist context in which gap year travel programs have proliferated does little to promote tolerance. We then consider the recent growth of 'volunteer tourism' as an alternative gap year youth travel experience and explore how the implied resistance to self-serving neoliberalist values that it engenders can become coopted by neoliberalism. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Annals of Tourism Research	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.annals.2011.04.016	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	Gap year volunteer tourism. Myths of Global Citizenship?	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international 'gap year' travel programs and policies. Governments and industry alike promote gap year travel uncritically as a guaranteed pathway to the development of inclusive ideologies associated with global citizenship. In this paper we examine how the neoliberalist context in which gap year travel programs have proliferated does little to promote tolerance. We then consider the recent growth of 'volunteer tourism' as an alternative gap year youth travel experience and explore how the implied resistance to self-serving neoliberalist values that it engenders can become coopted by neoliberalism. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

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