Volunteer Tourism: Where do they go and why? Postcolonial and neo-colonial considerations of a marketplace.

Volunteer tourism is a mix of travel and voluntary work, the latter of which involves tasks mainly aimed at aiding or alleviating poverty. A four-stage study utilising interpretive visual and interview research methods, presents a holistic overview of the construction, promotion and contestation of neo‐colonial discourses in the volunteer tourism marketplace. The findings lead to several ethical concerns about volunteer tourism marketing materials. The project concludes by discussing the implications for public policy and suggests closer attention be paid to the theory of decolonisation