Gap year volunteer tourism: myths of global citizenship?

Title: Gap year volunteer tourism: myths of global citizenship?
Creator: Lyons, Kevin; Hanley, Joanne; Wearing, Stephen; Neil, John
Relation: Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 39, Issue 1, p. 361-378
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2011.04.016
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: 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.
Subject: global citizenship; neoliberalism; gap year travel; volunteer tourism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/928563
Identifier: uon:10382
Identifier: ISSN:0160-7383
Language: eng
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