Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Alternative Tourism Experiences -- Chapter 3 Volunteer Tourism Experiences -- Chapter 4 Exploring the Experience -- Chapter 5 The Volunteer Tourist's Experience - Self and Identity -- Chapter 6 The Site, Social Value and the Self -- Chapter 7 Developing the Self Through the Volunteer Tourism Experience -- Chapter 8 The Impacts on Communities: Moving Beyond the Passing Gaze -- Chapter 9 Volunteer Tourism: Moving on from the Empty Meeting Ground -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.