中国海外志愿者公益旅游体验及其影响

Experience and Influence of Chinese Overseas Volunteer Tourism

公益旅游发端于二十世纪七十年代的欧美,随后蔓延至全球。随着公益旅游的流行,很多研究开始关注公益旅游者的体验。研究发现,海外志愿者的公益旅游体验集中表现在"公益活动项目""社会交往中的亲密关系"和"审美与地方依恋"等三个方面的体验;公益旅游有助于个体发现自我,甚至建构新的自我,能够增强活动参与者的国际视野和全球意识,让人感受到有意义、信任、热情和人情味的情感交流,并能带来诸多内省的收获,如改变对社会的看法、树立新的价值观和生活态度。因此,海外志愿者公益活动对大学生的自我发展能够产生积极的影响。

Volunteer tourism originated in the 1970s’Europe and America,and then spread all over the globe.With the popularity of volunteer tourism,many researches begin to focus on the experience of volunteer tourists.The research found that the experience of overseas volunteers is mainly embodied in three aspects:“volunteer tourism activities program”,“the intimate relationships in social interaction”and“aesthetic and local attachment”.Volunteer tourism helps individuals identify themselves,even construct a new self,and can broaden the participants’international vision and enhance their global awareness.It makes people feel the emotional exchange with meaningfulness,trust,enthusiasm and human touch,and can bring a lot of introspection,such as changing views on the society and establishing new values and life attitudes.Thus,overseas volunteers’activities can exert a positive impact on college students’self-development.