Valuing organic farm volunteer tourists in Hawai'i: farm host perspectives

Mary Mostafanezhad, Saleh Azizi and Kelsey Johansen

Current Issues in Tourism, 2016, vol. 19, issue 6, 613-617

Abstract: This article challenges conventional understandings of the benefits of farm volunteer tourism through a qualitative study of the perceived value of organic farm volunteer tourists participating in the World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) network from the perspective of WWOOF farm hosts in Hawai'i. Through an ethnographic examination of farm hosts' perspectives, the economic and non-economic costs and benefits of hosting farm volunteer tourists are examined. It illustrates how the off-setting of labour costs are juxtaposed against the economic cost of lost productivity and accommodation expenses. Farm hosts also report non-economic benefits, including spiritual development, interpersonal exchange relationships and shared lifestyles, while non-economic costs pertained to loss of privacy, and the need to engage in the emotional labour associated with farm hosting.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2014.961904

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