Is volunteer travel popular in other countries?

It is reported that at present, some college students choose to travel by "volunteer travel" to volunteer for the destination hotel in exchange for free food and accommodation. However, there are many problems behind the free travel, such as security risks and labor fraud, and the "poem and distance" of providing free food and accommodation needs careful consideration.

It is reported that in Israel, young travelers from all over the world often try to do both work and travel by volunteering. This kind of farm volunteer mode provided by Israel is provided by some NGOs. Although there are many volunteers from all over the world, the platform does not provide insurance. Volunteers have to buy it themselves if they feel the need. Most volunteers will not spend extra money to buy insurance, and they will not be able to make claims in the event of an accident.

Hu Fang, a special Australian observer of Global Chinese Broadcasting Network, said: It's extremely common to travel while working in Australia, but unlike volunteer travel, it's absolutely impossible to volunteer without any pay while you work and get free accommodation. Therefore, visas for working and vacationing are quite common in the local area.

In the EU and Russia, on the surface, volunteer travel is unfriendly to foreign tourists, but in fact, it is too bad to treat domestic tourists. Volunteer travel agencies are becoming more and more commercialized. Not only is the registration fee expensive, but many completely free projects can also be marked with sky-high prices, and even a small amount of symbolic work can be made up unilaterally, and then operated according to the tour group's process.

Experts say that volunteer travel is different from simple travel, because it also contains the content of labor relations, and many problems arising from it belong to labor disputes, so college students should be careful when choosing.