Monitoring and evaluation practices of volunteer tourism organisations

Monitoring, Evaluation & Decision Interoperability in Networked Organisations

Volunteer Monitoring

Hometown Organisations and Development Practices

Research Background) This working paper is part of a comparative research project looking at three immigrant groups (two North African Berber groups: the Moroccan Chleuhs and the Algerian Kabyles, and the Sikh Punjabis from India) residing in two receiving countries (France and the UK). This work seeks to explain the emergence of hometown associations committed to the development of their place...

Strategic volunteer management planning and implementation in Scottish third sector organisations: understanding the volunteer psychological contract

Ecotourism, conservation biology, and volunteer tourism: A mutually beneficial triumvirate

Funding for basic conservation research is chronically lacking. The potential for ecotourism to fund conservation research exists, but has been little explored. One branch of ecotourism with funding potential is volunteer tourism, where conservation scientists and recruiting agencies develop research projects and volunteers provide funding and labor. We examine the costs and benefits of a three...