The purpose of my dissertation is to investigate and analyse the importance of motivation factors for future volunteers, and how these factors influence the authenticity of volunteer experience. Volunteer travel has many advantages while choosing a new career and in future employability of graduates. Voluntary organizations have recognized the importance and benefits of voluntary travels and are promoting their programs as diverse and interesting experience that fulfils desires of future volunteers. Today, voluntary programs are marketed and exploited as life opportunities that influence self-transformation and personal growth. However, the excessive and commercialized offer simultaneously loses the authenticity of volunteer travels. The aim of my dissertation is to confirm that the motivation of future volunteers depends on desire to learn about different cultures, to improve language, to explore new places, to acquire new skills and to gain good references for the future, while voluntary work is often put into the background. One of the most important factors for participation in a voluntary trip are references that improve the academic development of students and affect the employability of graduates. There are certain problems and misunderstandings between voluntary travels and humanitarian travels. Voluntary travels are often equated as humanitarian travels, although these are two different types of travels. Voluntary travel should not be equated with humanitarian travel, as volunteering is not necessarily a humanitarian journey.
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