Absences in the volunteer tourism phenomenon: the right to travel, solidarity tours and transformation beyond the one-way.

Abstract

This chapter explores the exclusions/inclusions of volunteer tourism and examines the phenomenon of solidarity and reality tours, in which people from developing countries are enabled to travel and interact with people in developed communities through church-based, activist and developmental networks. The Ladakh Project of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is examined as a case study of solidarity tourism. The chapter explores the need to expand the inclusions of volunteer tourism beyond the provinces of the privileged. This analysis indicates a need for further research into the scale, scope and impact of such solidarity and reality tours across the divide that now separates the people of the developing and developed worlds. It is argued that there is a particular need to search out projects that are locally initiated in contrast to the Ladakh Project studied here.

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