The phenomena of volunteering, as part of the non-for profit sector, can be studied from a marketing approach in the context of the study of Special Events. In this study we wish to explore volunteering in a Religious Mega-Event though the concept of pre-use (expected) and post-use (perceived)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present volunteering in tourism events as a sort of spontaneous community participation that has far‐reaching consequences for destination management. It chooses the concept of value to explore volunteering experience in an international religious...

Purpose In the fertile line of research on consumer value from the services literature, a gap exists between theoretical and empirical knowledge, in particular regarding Holbrook’s conceptual value framework. The purpose of this paper is to find construct validity for a multidimensional value...