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This thesis explores orphanage tourism within the context of Cambodia, adopting a critical geography approach to investigate the intricate and contentious aspects of tourism within this space.
Through qualitative research, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 managers, directors or volunteer coordinators in orphanages in Cambodia. Literature research was also undertaken to investigate the background and context of the phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Cambodia.
31 mar 2023 · Carpenter takes her reader through the sociopolitical history of Cambodia to show where and how the orphanage culture grew and why children were left there. In doing so, she looks at different meanings of being an orphan that had existed in Cambodia across time.
ween tourists and orphanages in Cambodia which, with its history of instability, has become an important site for voluntourism and poverty tourism, of which orphanage tourism is a dominant form. This article seeks to illustrate the pervasiveness of orphanage tourism in Cambodia and the significant impact it is having on those centres participating.
28 gru 2015 · Orphanage tourism in Cambodia is an important niche tourism form within the wider tourism trends of voluntourism and poverty tourism. It is increasing rapidly internationally, but in some nations more than others, Cambodia has a particularly popular orphanage tourism destination.
1 lis 2015 · Specific issues to be examined are: (1) the definition and delineation of orphanage tourism; (2) motivations for orphanage voluntourism; (3) consequences of orphanage voluntourism; (4) the anti-orphanage tourism campaign.
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the lived experiences of children who interacted with tourists in a performance-based orphanage in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The orphanage was perceived by poor...
