1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism

544 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

544 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

544 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. Split into thematic sections, the primary areas covered include: key disciplinary approaches to understanding volunteerism, international contexts, managing volunteers, the impacts and legacies of volunteering and future... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Kirsten Holmes, Karen A. Smith, Leonie Lockstone-Binney and Richard Shipway

Part 1 – Disciplinary Approaches to Volunteering

Chapter 2: Economics and volunteering

Megan Haddock

Chapter 3: Geography, place and international development volunteering

Amanda Davies

Chapter 4: How a political economy lens can help assess and improve conservation volunteer tourism

Kerry E. Grimm, Emilie Wiehe and Robyn Bath-Rosenfield

Chapter 5: Psychology of volunteering

Darja Kragt

Chapter 6: Volunteering in international sports events from a public administration perspective

Robert Gawlowski and Patrycja Gulak-Lipka

Part 2 – Volunteering in Tourism and Sport

Chapter 7: Destination service volunteering

Karen A. Smith, Anna Karin Olsson and Kirsten Holmes

Chapter 8: Visitor attraction: volunteering in cultural heritage tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand

Jane Legget

Chapter 9: Herding 6,000 volunteers

Robert S. Bristow

Chapter 10: Deconstructing volunteer tourism

Snigdha Kainthola, Pinaz Tiwari and Nimit R. Chowdhary

Chapter 11: The freefall of volunteer leaders in Australian grassroots associations

Christel Lorraine Mex

Chapter 12: Volunteering in community sports organisations and associations

Geoff Nichols

Part 3 – Volunteering at Events

Chapter 13: Enhancing volunteer skills through mega sports events: evidence from London 2012 Olympic Games

Niki Koutrou

Chapter 14: London, Vancouver, and PyeongChang Olympics: a comparison of volunteer motivations

Chulhee Kang, Femida Handy and Sang-uk Park

Chapter 15: Volunteering at community events: from volunteering for an event to volunteering as an event

Elias Delanoye, Sam Gorleer and Lesley Hustinx

Chapter 16: Volunteering and charity fundraising events

Tim Brown

Chapter 17: Helping through sport and events within corporate volunteering: benefits for volunteers and companies

Barbara Jozefowicz

Chapter 18: Volunteering at business events: insights from China

Hongxia Qi

Part 4 – Managing Volunteers

Chapter 19: Designing a volunteer program

Graham Cuskelly and Michelle Hayes

Chapter 20: Volunteer stewardship management models for volunteer programs

Lucas C.P.M. Meijs

Chapter 21: Volunteering motivation

Katja Petrovic and Arthur A. Stukas

Chapter 22: Volunteer recruitment and selection: evidence from the visitor attraction sector

Giancarlo Fedeli and Linda Cigurova

Chapter 23: Exploring retention and rewards in community sport volunteering

Nadina Ayer and John R. Cooper

Chapter 24: The role of organisational culture in sustaining volunteers in heritage attractions: the case of Puffing Billy railway

Josephine Pryce

Part 5 – Impacts and Legacies of Volunteering

Chapter 25: Understanding volunteering impact and legacy, a sustainability approach

Andrew Adams and John Deane

Chapter 26: "It's just a fun day out really": Perceptions of volunteering and mega-event volunteer legacy

Ellie May

Chapter 27: Creating a social legacy from event volunteering

Roger Rogerson, Fiona Reid and Rafaelle Nicholson

Chapter 28: Widening the scope of evaluating volunteer tourism: beyond impact measurement

Simone Grabowski-Faulkner, Phoebe Everingham and Tamara Young

Part 6 – Critical Issues in Volunteering

Chapter 29: Ethics of volunteering in tourism: ethics of the heart

Konstantinos Tomazos

Chapter 30: Diversity and inclusion in sport volunteering

Ryan Storr

Chapter 31: Intercultural learning or just having fun? What volunteer tourism providers can learn from educational volunteering programmes to enhance intercultural competencies

Olga Junek and Celine Chang

Chapter 32: Service learning and volunteering: A case study of service learning in Chinese business events volunteering

Guoyang Chen and Hongxia Qi

Chapter 33: Volunteering and obligation: positive and negative

Robert A. Stebbins

Chapter 34: Glocal citizenship: lofty ideals in regional space

Faith Ong

Part 7 – New Directions in Volunteering Research

Chapter 35: Profiling research on volunteering in events, sport and tourism

Andrzej Lis and Mateusz Tomanek

Chapter 36: Trends in volunteering

Colin Rochester

Chapter 37: Informal volunteering

Lili Wang

Chapter 38: Methods for researching volunteers

Richard Shipway and Leonie Lockstone-Binney

Chapter 39: The future of volunteering and work

Tom Baum, Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Karen A. Smith, Richard Shipway and Kirsten Holmes

Biography

Kirsten Holmes is a Professor at Curtin University, Australia, and is an international expert in volunteering in events, sport, and tourism contexts.

Leonie Lockstone-Binney is an Associate Professor in and Research Director for the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management at Griffith University, Australia.

Karen A. Smith is Professor of Tourism Management in the Wellington School of Business and Government at Te Heranga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Richard Shipway is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport and Event Management at Bournemouth University, UK.