Volunteer Tourism at Sport Events, Cases: Winter Olympic Games 2014 & 2014 Ice Hockey Under-18 World Championship
Khairullina, Viktoriia (2014)
Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014060111266
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014060111266
Tiivistelmä
This is a research-based thesis about volunteer tourism, which focuses on sport events’ volunteers. The purpose of the thesis was to find out, who are the volunteers of the analyzed events and what drives them to do voluntary work.
The theoretical part of the thesis concentrates on the concepts of event tourism, sport tourism and volunteering. In addition, it gives general information about analyzed events, including information about volunteers of those events. The information for the theoretical part was gathered from literature, magazine articles and Internet sources. The second part of the thesis is the research. The data for this part was gathered through several questionnaires with volunteers and an interview with one of the event organizers.
As a result of the research, the portrait of the people, who travel in order to volunteer at sport events, was drawn. In addition, the research found out the motivation and the expectations of the volunteers. Moreover, ways of improving volunteers’ quality of work are suggested. Finally, the research was focused on the future plans of the voluntary workers, showing their possibility to volunteer again. This helps to see whether volunteers’ movement has a chance to be developed in the future.
The theoretical part of the thesis concentrates on the concepts of event tourism, sport tourism and volunteering. In addition, it gives general information about analyzed events, including information about volunteers of those events. The information for the theoretical part was gathered from literature, magazine articles and Internet sources. The second part of the thesis is the research. The data for this part was gathered through several questionnaires with volunteers and an interview with one of the event organizers.
As a result of the research, the portrait of the people, who travel in order to volunteer at sport events, was drawn. In addition, the research found out the motivation and the expectations of the volunteers. Moreover, ways of improving volunteers’ quality of work are suggested. Finally, the research was focused on the future plans of the voluntary workers, showing their possibility to volunteer again. This helps to see whether volunteers’ movement has a chance to be developed in the future.