Othering or authenticity?: Voluntourism and cultural exchange in Peru and Fiji

SJ McLennan, J Thomas-Maude - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism …, 2023 - Elsevier
As the tourism industry emerges from pandemic shutdowns and border closures, so too is
“voluntourism”, the controversial combination of overseas volunteer work and more …

Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

P Stanley, AC Wight - Journal of Travel Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study considers cultural adaptation through tourism, focusing on language-travelers:
hybrid education-tourism consumers whose voices remain relatively silent in tourism …

Translating the Value of Global Languages: Learning/Teaching Spanish/English Within Volunteer Tourism in Cusco, Peru

A Sinervo - Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter explores how interactions between local child vendors and volunteer tourists
facilitate bidirectional language exchange in Cusco, Peru. Tourists enroll in Spanish schools …

Introducing Language-Motivated Voluntourism

C Jakubiak, LS Schedel - Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching …, 2023 - Springer
This introduction to the edited collection, Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching:
Critical Perspectives, puts forth the concept of “language-motivated voluntourism,” which …

Immersion as Language Ideology and Other Discourses in English-Language Voluntourism

C Jakubiak - Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching …, 2023 - Springer
language voluntourism is a practice in which well-meaning, often uncredentialled and
inexperienced, native or highly proficient English speakers teach English in the Global …