TOURISM-VOLUNTEERING AND SPORT - CONNECTIONS
AND IMPLICATIONS FROM A RESEARCH
TOURISM-VOLUNTEERING AND SPORT - CONNECTIONS
AND IMPLICATIONS FROM A RESEARCH
Author(s): Éva Bácsné Bába, Anetta Müller, Anikó Molnár, Beáta Dobay, Zoltán Bács, Károly PetőSubject(s): Social Sciences, Economy
Published by: Univerzita J. Selyeho, Fakulta ekonómie a informatiky
Keywords: volunteer tourism; volunteer work; sport volunteering; sporting event; motivation
Summary/Abstract: Volunteer tourism is the combination of leisure travel and voluntary work. It has a growing significance and the tourism motivation and spending of volunteers has an impact on the tourism sector. Our research aimed to examine the motivational background of volunteer work. It was our objective to find out how Hungarian and foreign students are proportionally represented in volunteer work and also, what areas they choose in sport for volunteering and out of what type of motivations. The sample of 371 young adults was analysed using SPSS software. Besides descriptive statistics Chi2 values were calculated. 78,4% of respondents, have already done volunteer work. 96,2% of the latter subsample have been involved in volunteer work in a sporting event. Tourism-related motivation is dominant in the motivational makeup of volunteers. Main motivations were: having fun, love of sport, teamwork, work experience.
Journal: Acta Oeconomica Universitatis Selye
- Issue Year: 7/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 19-32
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English