Motivations of young volunteers in special events

Part of : Tourismos : an international multidiciplinary journal of tourism ; Vol.4, No.1, 2009, pages 144-152

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144-152
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Case studies
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Volunteers are considered one of the main pillars of the special events.Motivations of volunteers have received a great attention from manyorganizations as they proved to be of a great value for human resources.Volunteering in special events bring different people together no matter what aretheir ethnics, origins, religion and economic standards. It also creates a sense ofsocial harmony. The main issue of this research is to identify the motivations,needs and attitudes of young volunteers. Data gathered to examine these pointsfrom university students (n=500) that volunteered and those who did notvolunteer in special events. The 12th version of the statistical tool (StatisticalPackage for Social Science) SPSS was used to execute data statistical analysis ofthe field study.
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motivation, special events, volunteers
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