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"The world is so big, I want to see it.

It is the original intention of some young people to choose volunteer travel to come to a strange place, feel the local life and make a group of like-minded friends. However, can volunteer travel really achieve "poetry and distance"?

"Volunteer Travel"-an unprofessional person who did what he should do professionally. Professional people are not professional enough.

The so-called "volunteer travel" originally means to join a certain group voluntarily and carry out volunteer activities while traveling, so you should also bear corresponding responsibilities while enjoying the trip. This kind of travel is a relatively new concept in China, mainly active in Douban, Post Bar, Xiaohongshu and WeChat official accounts.

In recent years, this concept of travel, which emphasizes the identity of "volunteers", has gradually been confused with "changing jobs for accommodation".

Searching for "volunteer travel" on social platforms shows mostly the information of recruiting "volunteers" in youth hostels and inns. Among them, Shangri-La, Lijiang and Weizhou Island have become popular places for volunteers to travel.

Discussion group on "Volunteer Travel" on Douban.

Is there really an imaginary coexistence of labor and poetry in exchange for accommodation in youth travel or homestay?

Volunteer: We can solve the problems of accommodation and meals, and we can make one more friend.

"Working is working, not poetry and distance" can reach anywhere. First, go to the national chain recruitment network and choose the corresponding part-time job. 15 days to rest for 3 days. Take advantage of the last day's break to take a local day trip and make money in the tour. The advantage can be that migrant workers and bosses can learn more about local anecdotes and get paid at the same time, and use the paid money to participate in local day trips and take the destination as their destination. Suitable for college students, freelancers, people who experience life and travel bloggers.

Tourism is not poetry and distance, but curiosity and exploration of history and a city. The local culture, language, temperament and lifestyle are just like the cultural differences between North and South. You can't understand it without watching it all the time.

Of course, it is safer to drive college students out of go on road trip with a travel agency as the lead. The premise cannot be a capitalist. Don't wait for a part-time job. Don't get paid. But exchange products such as tourism.

If the market wants to become normal, there must be a platform, and travel agencies can act as such a platform. Note: Practitioners are more aware of what tourists want than what they can only provide. Since it is a part-time job, of course, we must support the reasonable cost of the service platform, and we can use proportional integral and other means to be afraid of hooligans and less profits.

In fact, disputes between volunteers and homestays have always existed.

At present, the requirements of homestays for volunteers are uneven. When recruiting volunteers, most homestays are required to work at least 1 month, rest every week 1, and work hours range from 4 to 6 hours a day, and some even require 8 hours.

In these recruitment, almost every shopkeeper will publicize the local food beauty and describe the interesting experiences that may happen. Most of these descriptions are romantic and poetic, which can be described as "as you wish" for young people who pursue feelings.

Volunteer: Remind yourself what traveling means. Selfishness, vision, patterns, experiences, hobbies.

Description of the owner when recruiting volunteers.

However, on social platforms, many people complain that the work intensity of volunteers is quite different from their imagination: "I thought it was just to help attract guests to enliven the atmosphere, but who knows I have to clean and wash dishes, and I am not allowed to play during work hours." "Get up at 8: 30 in the morning, and 1 1 can take a shower and sleep at night. If I refute it a little, I will be driven away by my master. "

In addition, the hotel environment has also been criticized. Some volunteers were attracted by the legendary beauty. After arriving, I found that the location was remote and the scenery was single. Someone even appeared: "The hotel is really high, but the volunteers live in a deserted inn. They were scared every night and ran away after three days. "

In this regard, many bosses of youth brigades and homestays are also "complaining": "Many people are unwilling to work after coming." A homestay owner said that he recruited five people and ran three, with a turnover rate as high as 60%.

Requirements put forward by a youth hostel when recruiting volunteers.

Therefore, in many information about recruiting volunteers, there is such a requirement: "I hope to have the spirit of contract, have a job in my eyes, and have no princess disease."

In front of volunteers and homestays, it is not only the gap between fantasy and reality, but also the issue of integrity.

There are many part-time websites in the destination, which is very suitable.

The relationship between volunteers and homestays is extremely unstable and their personal attachment is weak. This also means that the relationship between volunteers and homestays can only be maintained by the spirit of contract.

Some people try to establish a benign mechanism between volunteers and homestays. Some netizens once put forward the "84-hour volunteer travel convention" on Douban, hoping to become a work system recognized by both parties: the recruitment period is 15 days, and the working hours are 6 hours a day.

"Since volunteers serve the store for free, and the original intention of coming to the store is to travel or play, then volunteers should not be required as contract workers, and the management scale can be appropriately relaxed." He wrote at the conference.

Whether voluntary travel can become a "utopia" pursued by young people is still inconclusive. But as the netizen said after the experience: "Young people's time should not be wasted on simple odd jobs, and volunteers should be given more meaning to travel."