Impacts and effectiveness of voluntourism in Malaysia

This paper attempts to propose a conceptual research framework for investigating the impacts and effectiveness of voluntourism activities in Malaysia. Three major stakeholders of voluntourism; volutourist, voluntourism organization and community in need will be the main focus of the propose research. In the context of tourism in Malaysia, voluntourism has been a phenomenon as it was proposed by the government to promote public good among local community in Malaysia as well as volunteer tourist that visits Malaysia with purposes that combines both voluntary work and enjoying leisure and touristy of the volunteering destination.