A Study on the Motivation and Demand of College Students' Volunteer Tourism: a Case Study of Shenzhen College Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/ichssr-17.2017.18How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Volunteer Tourism, Motivation, Demand, College Students, Shenzhen.
- Abstract
Volunteer tourism has become one of the major public interest activities of college students with a lot of attributes, such as charity service, self-promotion, travel experience, green ecology, and education poverty alleviation and so on. Taking college students of Shenzhen as the research object, this paper uses interviews and content analysis methods to sum up the motivation, preferences and constraints to participate in volunteer tourism. The study found that college participations prefer diversified, experiential, social and unique volunteer tourism projects. The cost of money and time, safety insurance, communication and social identification are the most concentrated concerns of respondents. At last, the paper puts forward the development strategy of college students' volunteer tourism, which has a certain practical significance to promote the sustainable development of tourism.
- Copyright
- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Peng Du AU - Xiaoyi Huang PY - 2017/05 DA - 2017/05 TI - A Study on the Motivation and Demand of College Students' Volunteer Tourism: a Case Study of Shenzhen College Students BT - Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 90 EP - 93 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichssr-17.2017.18 DO - 10.2991/ichssr-17.2017.18 ID - Du2017/05 ER -