Journal
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Volume 28, Issue 12, Pages 1947-1969Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1778010
Keywords
Volunteer tourism; personal values; norm activation model; theory of planned behavior; subjective well-being; volunteer travelers
Funding
- National Social Science Foundation of China [18BGL154]
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While volunteer tourism has been gaining in popularity around the world, few studies have looked into the travelers' re-participation intention within a pro-social context. This study aimed to develop and test a new conceptual framework that explains the volunteer travelers' behavioral intention formation in the context of a pro-social activity. It employed three theories, which include the norm activation model, the theory of planned behavior, and the personal values, as a theoretical basis that considers the altruistic and egoistic aspects of the travelers' psychological response to volunteer tourism. A total of 375 quantitative surveys were obtained from Korean travelers who voluntarily completed a non-profit global volunteer tourism program during the spring in 2019. Using a structural equation modelling analysis, the study's results verified that the proposed model connecting the personal values, the norm activation model, and the theory of planned behavior was a satisfactory predictive model that explains the travelers' re-participation intention in volunteer tourism. Additionally, subjective well-being was found to be a significant moderator between the re-participation intention and its predictors. The study sheds light on the role of personal and social factors in volunteer tourism.
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