Self and society in voluntourism: A thirty-year retrospective analysis of post-trip self-development of volunteer tourists to the Israeli kibbutz

Volunteer Tourism: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 102-120

  Mittelberg, David ^a   Palgi, Michal ^b  

^a School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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