Voluntourism: Who’s Undertaking What, Where, And How

ChaCha has this helpful graphic about travel’s newest trend, voluntourism, exhibiting who’s undertaking it, where they’re going, and what they are doing. Turns out the top three spots for the million or so Americans in 2009 who partook in worldwide voluntravel, Peru was the most well-known (16%), followed by Costa Rica (14%) and South Africa (13%). (Interesting, looks the reduced-temperature areas of the world are in significantly less require of help?)

Males are also way behind in their altruism, with ladies beating them nearly two to 1. And, as the graphic’s note factors out, the quantity of people today taking this kind of journeys improved by 46% (from 4.seven million people to 6.two million folks) from 2007 to 2008, a great indicator for this new travel trend. Now if only far more organizations had been in need to have of the expertise of an knowledgeable blogger to lend them a hand for a couple of weeks. . .