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Solidarity Tourism

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Solidarity tourism is a form of travel that emphasizes social justice, cultural exchange, and community engagement. It seeks to promote ethical interactions between tourists and local communities, fostering mutual understanding and support while addressing issues such as poverty, inequality, and environmental sustainability.
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Solidarity tourism is a form of travel that emphasizes social justice, cultural exchange, and community engagement. It seeks to promote ethical interactions between tourists and local communities, fostering mutual understanding and support while addressing issues such as poverty, inequality, and environmental sustainability.

Key research themes

1. How does emotional solidarity between residents and tourists influence local support for tourism development?

This theme investigates the concept of emotional solidarity as a critical factor shaping residents' attitudes and support for tourism development, particularly exploring different dimensions of emotional connection such as welcoming nature, emotional closeness, and sympathetic understanding. Understanding these social-psychological dynamics helps address challenges of resident-tourist interactions, which greatly impact sustainable tourism practices and community well-being.

Key finding: This study validated the Emotional Solidarity Scale across residents and tourists and found significant differences: residents showed higher welcoming nature, whereas tourists experienced higher emotional closeness. This... Read more
Key finding: Through a large-scale survey analyzing sociodemographic and socioeconomic variables, this work demonstrated heterogeneity within resident communities concerning emotional solidarity with tourists. It found that factors like... Read more
Key finding: Integrating emotional solidarity with social exchange theory (SET), this study revealed that residents' welcoming nature, sympathetic understanding, and emotional closeness positively affect their attitudes and support for... Read more
Key finding: Addressing measurement inconsistencies, this study proposed and validated a parsimonious 4-item 'Support for Tourism' scale based on large-scale data from US and Poland. The scale demonstrated high reliability,... Read more

2. In what ways can solidarity tourism aid in humanitarian crises and sustainable community development?

This theme explores solidarity tourism as a proactive response to humanitarian crises, emphasizing its role in social cohesion, economic inclusion, and ethical engagement with local communities facing adversity. It highlights solidarity tourism’s potential contribution to sustainable development frameworks by fostering empathy-driven tourism practices that support recovery and resilience.

Key finding: Focusing on Ukraine's armed conflict, this paper demonstrates how solidarity tourism operates both at governmental ('from above') and grassroots ('from below') levels to assist humanitarian recovery. The study emphasizes... Read more
Key finding: This work presented empirical sustainability practices within Bulgarian solidarity tourism, illustrating how ethical tourism intertwines with education and volunteering to create equitable resource distribution and community... Read more
Key finding: This theoretical study argues for reorienting tourism towards solidarity-based paradigms that oppose consumerist and egocentric impulses, suggesting solidarity tourism forms enable sustainability by promoting collective... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing 21,719 traveler online posts, this paper conceptualized solidarity in crisis times as relational value co-creation comprising co-producing, connecting, co-advocating, co-suffering, and collaborative consuming. These... Read more

3. What roles do volunteer tourism and ethical considerations play in shaping social justice and development outcomes within solidarity tourism?

This theme examines volunteer tourism as an ethic-driven subset of solidarity tourism, analyzing motivations, socio-political implications, and ethical debates surrounding volunteer tourism’s claims to social justice and development. It critically engages with ideological continuities from missionary work to contemporary voluntourism and discusses how ethical tourism discourses influence practice and perception in development-oriented tourism.

Key finding: This research symposium introduction situates volunteer tourism within broader neoliberal development agendas and social justice campaigns, highlighting emergent debates on ethics, responsibility, and power dynamics. It... Read more
Key finding: Through ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata, this study reveals how contemporary volunteer tourism is entwined with Christian missionary ideologies, perpetuating neo-colonial narratives under the guise of charity. It exposes... Read more
Key finding: This reflective paper articulates social tourism’s social and economic benefits for vulnerable populations and communities, positioning social tourism as an inclusive ethical imperative supporting societal wellbeing and... Read more
Key finding: This conceptual analysis critiques the rise of ethical tourism discourses centered on personal virtues (care, responsibility), arguing they often replace collective political agency with individual moralism. The paper... Read more

All papers in Solidarity Tourism

Селският туризъм като отделен под сектор на туристическата индустрия се развива и се променя постоянно по отношение на своята структура. Новите пазарни тенденции, както и натрупания от страна на селскостопанските производители опит в... more
Purpose At a time when tourism is embarking on the path to recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, this paper aims to put forward a set of principles guiding the development of tourism to enable global society to become more inclusive and... more
The issue of defining tourist regions in Bulgaria and their management has been discussed in the country over the last 50 years and is still relevant nowadays. So far, many attempts have been made to develop an acceptable solution in... more
Tourism is one of the fastest growing and changing industries globally but can "selfie tourism" be part of this change and in the future to be established as a business niche in the field of alternative tourism or it will remain just a... more
O presente artigo pretende refletir sobre as potencialidades de o turismo solidário contribuir para o desenvolvimento local, sendo pensado a partir de uma abordagem complexa e como o conceito do mesmo, representado pelos "6V`s", funciona... more
With the hope of rapid development of rural tourism in Bulgaria, how to innovate and optimize the marketing mode and successfully achieve marketing purposes is an urgent problem for the marketing of rural tourism destinations. Based on... more
The research is based on studies of the tourist potential in several municipalities in Bulgaria. The aim is to present the individual stages in the scientific research process in the planning and development of a tourist destination and... more
доц. д-р Снежина Кадиева-х. доцент в Колеж по туризъм при ИУ-Варна и към катедра "Икономика и организация на туризма" в ИУ. Варна, The report analyzes guesthouses as a specific product of the hospitality industry and the growth of demand... more
Abstract: the report presents what ecotourism is and how modern tourism development should meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It presents the social... more
The issue of defining tourist regions in Bulgaria and their management has been discussed in the country over the last 50 years and is still relevant nowadays. So far, many attempts have been made to develop an acceptable solution in... more
Основна цел на студията е, на базата на конструиран модел за агрегирана оценка на въздействията на събитийния туризъм да се анализират и оценят основните позитиви и негативи върху приемащата общност в България. Така поставената цел се... more
Vers une éthique du tourisme? Les tensions à l'oeuvre dans l'élaboration et l'appréhension des chartes de bonne conduite par les différents acteurs Nadège Chabla:" La recherche d'une éthique dans les pratiques touristiques concerne... more
This case study explores an example for reconciling both protected areas management goals-education and tourism in the context of Education for Sustainable Development. It uses the project 'Holidays for sustainability' as a tool for... more
Development of new products is a typical task in the tourism planning process. New trends are increasingly focusing on products related to empathy with nature, health and well-being. The main reasons for this emerging demand are the... more