Voluntourism Essay

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In this age of globalization, we can know almost everything that is happening around the world through media no matter where we are, or what we are doing. By the aid of rapid communication, everybody is paying more attentions to unfortunate people who are suffering as media constantly brings up information about these “indigent people”: the celebrities, the newspaper, and the TV. What happened to them? How are they now? What could we do to help them? This intention sounds as good as it could be, but other questions should be raised up along as well. What do they need? Do we really cater what is needed? In response to international misery, we create voluntourism to allow many people to go abroad to help while they are on vacation. However, voluntourism can be really problematic on many levels. With the uprising trend of voluntourism, we must be curious why so many people are eager to help foreigner, who they don’t know. Pippa Bidle, once partook in volutourism to Tanzania, admits in her Huffington post that she does not have the skills to make an effective solution to long-term issue. She is just a student, and the decision to join voluntourism is entirely impulsive, as she states that she “didn’t want to miss out the opportunity which many of her friend had taken, and recommended”. Although she was passionate to change the lives of local …show more content…

The authority in indigent community would have to use the investment of tourists to create jobs, and improve public facilities for its citizen to use; I mean we should have volunteerism established first; then, we can think of doing voluntourism. Voluntourism is definitely not harmful if the tourists has professionalism, or is committed to long time project, making volunteer more meaningful. Our effort in trying to help somebody should be beneficial to that one; otherwise, we are just doing for ourselves a

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