The exploration of value domain attribute in argungu community with an emergent voluntourism economy and its accrued benefits

The paper focuses on residents’ perceptions of personal benefits derivable from voluntourism activity via host and guests relationships. Various paradigms has been attempted to filter rural- urban dichotomy but with less attention to residents’ attitudes and natural assets as a transit to rural revitalization thus necessitated the combination of theory of planned behaviour & sustainable livelihood factors (TPB & SLF). The strength of the theories rests on their receptiveness, ability to delve into rural natural endowments and exploration of resident’s behavioural patterns thus encapsulate the veracity of the approaches. The study was conducted through an extensive literature review combined with an in-depth case study analysis that identified a range of potentials in applying TPB & SLF to examine rural economy, residents’ attitudes and their livelihood assts. These in turns were examined based on socio demographic relationships and personal benefits through the administration of structured questionnaires. It reveals that the residents’ perceptions of personal benefits from voluntourism activity were closely related with their attitudes towards voluntourists in a positive direction. Hence, it reiterates the significant of economic perspective of tourism benefits for residents of Argungu where voluntourism is still a mirage. Precisely, the data aligned and gives credit to TPB &SLF in voluntourism explorations of resident’s benefits

Exploring volunteer tourism as a panacea for sustainable poverty alleviation in Nigeria

One of the most intractable menaces that humanity has been battling with several decades ago is poverty. There have been a general consensus about the pervasiveness of poverty and its grave consequences on the well-being of citizens of developing (Nigeria) and least developed nations. Notwithstanding the enormity of human, material and natural resources that nature has endowed in the country which should have been effectively and prudently channeled to alleviate the poverty situation of its citizenry. The said resources have over the years not been properly harnessed and or prudently utilized for societal development. One of the ways to address this cankerworm is economic diversification from crude oil reliance to new areas such as volunteer tourism or voluntourism. This paper examine efforts at poverty alleviation strategies by the government of Nigeria and realized that the efforts has not yielded positive results because the citizenry are still wallowing in abject poverty, inadequate social infrastructure, insecurity, unemployment amongst others as an offspring of poverty. This assertion prompted this study and recommendations among other the utilization of voluntourism that are characterized with financial assistance, knowledge transfer, international connection, integrated national endowment via restoration of environment through skill acquisitions, education, cultural immersion, wealth creation and equitable distribution and economic development. We then recommend that volunteer tourism may be adopted as the main antidote for sustainable poverty alleviation if the opportunity is thoroughly harnessed

Forecasting as a Pinnacle for Rural Revitalization: Case Study of Mesowalai Homestay, Sabah State, Malaysia

The rapid increase in the capacity of computers to store information has generated an abundance of data across all types of industries in the world.  Tourism forecast generates thousands of series of data nearly every time when considering domestic travel, as well as numerous levels of disaggregation such as geographical regions, purpose of travel and so on. Hence, accurate forecasting techniques have become a necessity in Mesowalai Homestay due to the influx of tourists to the area & its impact on socio- economic development so as to take advantage of such a plethora of information. Many studies have used different forecasting techniques to forecast tourist arrival; therefore this study adopts the regression approach to forecast tourist arrivals in Mesowalai homestay. The data comprises of tourist arrival from the year 2000 to 2010. For the modeling, year 2000 to 2006 was used for building up the tourist arrival model and year 2006 to 2010 was used to compare the forecast. The result shows that the peak tourist arrivals to Mesowalai homestay is put at 1123.55 annually while tourist growth increases by 233.2 annually. Keywords: Volunteer tourism, Forecast, Regression Approach, Tourist Arrival, Homesta

Forecasting as a Pinnacle for Rural Revitalization: Case Study of Mesowalai Homestay, Sabah State, Malaysia

The rapid increase in the capacity of computers to store information has generated an abundance of data across all types of industries in the world.  Tourism forecast generates thousands of series of data nearly every time when considering domestic travel, as well as numerous levels of disaggregation such as geographical regions, purpose of travel and so on. Hence, accurate forecasting techniques have become a necessity in Mesowalai Homestay due to the influx of tourists to the area & its impact on socio- economic development so as to take advantage of such a plethora of information. Many studies have used different forecasting techniques to forecast tourist arrival; therefore this study adopts the regression approach to forecast tourist arrivals in Mesowalai homestay. The data comprises of tourist arrival from the year 2000 to 2010. For the modeling, year 2000 to 2006 was used for building up the tourist arrival model and year 2006 to 2010 was used to compare the forecast. The result shows that the peak tourist arrivals to Mesowalai homestay is put at 1123.55 annually while tourist growth increases by 233.2 annually. Keywords: Volunteer tourism, Forecast, Regression Approach, Tourist Arrival, Homesta

Exploring Volunteer Tourism as a Panacea for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria

One of the most intractable menaces that humanity has been battling with several decades ago is poverty. There have been a general consensus about the pervasiveness of poverty and its grave consequences on the well-being of citizens of developing (Nigeria) and least developed nations. Notwithstanding the enormity of human, material and natural resources that nature has endowed in the country which should have been effectively and prudently channeled to alleviate the poverty situation of its citizenry. The said resources have over the years not been properly harnessed and or prudently utilized for societal development. One of the ways to address this cankerworm is economic diversification from crude oil reliance to new areas such as volunteer tourism or voluntourism. This paper examine efforts at poverty alleviation strategies by the government of Nigeria and realized that the efforts has not yielded positive results because the citizenry are still wallowing in abject poverty, inadequate social infrastructure, insecurity, unemployment amongst others as an offspring of poverty. This assertion prompted this study and recommendations among other the utilization of voluntourism that are characterized with financial assistance, knowledge transfer, international connection, integrated national endowment via restoration of environment through skill acquisitions, education, cultural immersion, wealth creation and equitable distribution and economic development. We then recommend that volunteer tourism may be adopted as the main antidote for sustainable poverty alleviation if the opportunity is thoroughly harnesse