voluntourism Travel Articles

 
Connect With Locals and Enhance Your Experience Abroad
Connect With Locals and Enhance Your Experience Abroad Enhance your experience abroad by connecting with locals. Isabel Eva Bohrer gives tips on how best to do it.
How to Add Volunteering to Your RTW Trip
How to Add Volunteering to Your RTW Trip Voluntourism is increasingly figuring high on the agendas of RTW travelers, but knowing where to start is another story. Should you sign up through an organization or go the independent route? Check out our top tips for incorporating voluntourism into your world travels and resources for figuring out how.
Getting Your Boots Dirty: How Volunteering in Africa Changed Me
Getting Your Boots Dirty: How Volunteering in Africa Changed Me Volunteering on a refugee camp in Africa may not be a typical travel choice, but as Josh Martin explains, it's certainly a transformational one.
RTW Trip Planning for Recent College Grads
RTW Trip Planning for Recent College Grads Just graduated college or graduating soon? Frustrated about job prospects? Isabel Eva Bohrer shares tips on a travel option that you may not have thought of. A RTW trip could enhance your resume and make you stand out to prospective employers.
Is It Worth It? An Insider’s Thoughts on Voluntourism in Orphanages and Schools
Is It Worth It? An Insider’s Thoughts on Voluntourism in Orphanages and Schools Planing to volunteer abroad or do a voluntourism trip? Filipa Chatillon shares her personal experience as a volunteer and volunteer coordinator and what you should look for when choosing your project/company.
7 Ways to Work with Wildlife Abroad
7 Ways to Work with Wildlife Abroad Have you always dreamt about working with wildlife abroad, but don't know how to get started? Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 7 ways to make a difference with flora and fauna all over the globe.
RTW Travel Themes: 9 Epic Quests to Inspire Your Trip
RTW Travel Themes: 9 Epic Quests to Inspire Your Trip One of the first and biggest challenges that RTW planners face is trying to decide where to go on your RTW trip. From cycling the Pan American highway to visiting all the countries of the former Soviet Union, here are a few ideas to get you started.
See Spot Live: The Dog Lovers’ Guide to Global Volunteer Work
See Spot Live: The Dog Lovers’ Guide to Global Volunteer Work Every year hundreds or thousands of us leave our dogs with family members, pet sitters and friends in order to heed the call of the open road. Leaving your children behind, no matter how many legs they have, is never easy. Yet, we go. For volunteer travelers, however, there may be some solace.
From Tourist to Agent of Change: What You Need to Know About Voluntourism
From Tourist to Agent of Change: What You Need to Know About Voluntourism Is voluntourism for you? Ariana Salvo shares some insights from her recent expedition to an organic cocoa farming community in the Dominican Republic and offers a few things to consider before you get started with voluntourism.
Five Reasons Not to Join the Peace Corps
Five Reasons Not to Join the Peace Corps Jill Nawrocki spent two years in Namibia as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She thinks there are a lot of reasons to sign up for this life-changing experience. Here are her top five reasons not to.