Will their absence make a difference? The role of local volunteer NGOs in home-stay intermediation in Ghana’s Garden City

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Title

Will their absence make a difference? The role of local volunteer NGOs in home-stay intermediation in Ghana’s Garden City

Creator

Esi Akyere Mensah, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah, Alexandru O Dimache

Description

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in home-stay arrangements in Ghana’s cultural city, Kumasi, and further assess NGO intermediation of home-stay from home-stay operators’ and international volunteer tourists’ perspectives.
Design/methodology/approach
A mixture of quantitative and qualitative approaches is used to target three main stakeholders of volunteer tourism including international volunteer tourists, home-stay operators, and local NGOs.
Findings
There are seven major roles played by volunteer NGOs in the home-stay arrangement. However, from operators’ perspective, NGOs may hinder the economic viability of home-stay through inadequate/low payment.
Originality/value
The study highlights the unexplored brokerage role of NGOs in volunteer tourism in home-stay intermediation and its implications for sustainable tourism.

Publisher

Emerald Publishing Limited

Date

2017

Source

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=UelpwsoAAAAJ&citation_for_view=UelpwsoAAAAJ:zYLM7Y9cAGgC

Language

English