This document discusses volunteer tourism, defining it as tourism combined with voluntary service that helps destinations and communities while also providing travel, adventure, and culture for volunteers. It outlines different types of volunteer tourists and activities, and provides examples of large international volunteer organizations and specific Turkish host and guest volunteer programs.

1. Volunteer Tourism

2. IntroductionIntroduction
Local
Community leisure
Help
people

3. Definition
Volunteer tourism
(Alternative Tourism)
“combination of voluntary service to a
destination with the traditional
elements of travel and tourism,
adventure, culture, and recreation -
while in the destination”.

4. Definition
Volunteer tourist
“tourists, who volunteer in an organised
way to undertake holidays involve
aiding or alleviating poverty of some
society, or restoration of an
environments”.

5. Types of Volunteer Tourist (I)
• Formal: Giving unpaid help through
groups, clubs or organizations to
benefit other people or the
environment.
• Informal: Giving unpaid help as an
individual.

6. Types of Volunteer tourist (II)
• volunteer-minded
seek out opportunities that support their altruistic
tendencies
• vacation-minded
choose their volunteering location based on
vacation advertising and promotion materials
of the destination.

7. Host & Guest tourism Volunteers(III)
• Hosts volunteers:
Volunteering in tourism organizations within
their own community, are involved in three
tourism settings: attractions, destination and
events.
• Guest Volunteers:
Traveling to volunteer as tourists in a
destination.

8. Volunteer Tourism Activities
• Poverty
• Environment
• Education
• Youth development
• Animal’s welfare
• Health

9. Poverty Volunteer

10. Animal’s welfare tourism volunteer

11. Health tourism volunteer

12. Environment tourism Volunteer

13. Education Volunteer

14. Model for Volunteer Tourism
Host
Community
NGOs
Tour
Operators
Volunteer
TouristGovernment

15. 3 Wins
Tourist
Tour
Operator
Local
community

16. Volunteer Participation Rates by Country
(1999-2004)
Table. 1

17. Organization Examples (world)
Peace Corps 1961
Goals: Helping the people of interested countries in meeting
their need for trained men and women.
Place: volunteers served in 193 country and 79 county in 2013.
Number of volunteers: Total more than 210,000 and 8100
volunteer in 2013.
Project sample:
• TEFL
• Youth development
• Environment

18. Organization Examples (world)
AIESEC 1948
Goals: providing a help for youth leadership
development.
Number of volunteers: 86,000 volunteer
students until 2013.
Place: 113 countries.
10 Cities in Turkey: Adana, Ankara, Antalya,
Bursa, Denizli, Eskişehir, Gaziantep,
İstanbul, İzmir, Kayseri,Kocaeli

19. Examples on Host Volunteers in
Turkey
Turizm Elçileri (Istanbul)
Goals: To give tourist a free information about
touristic places.
Time: started in 2010 and it is still going every
year until now.
Number of volunteers: arround 300 Student every
year.
Period: July – September every year.
Place: Atatürk airport, and form Kabataş to
Beyazıt.

20. Examples on Host volunteers in
Turkey
Mersin Akdeniz Oyunları
Goals: To help athletes and tourist who
comes enjoy this sport event.
Time: 20-30 June 2013.
Number of volunteers: 2500 volunteers.
Place: Mersin where the sports games
take a place.

21. Examples on Guest Volunteers in
Turkey
VIP tour operator, EIL-Turkey (1959)
Goals: bring volunteers from different country to
work with local communities.
Projects
• Social and Welfare volnteer
Sample: Friendly Hands - DOST ELLER
• Education volunteer
Sample: Children's Friends Association