Challenging the responsibility of 'responsible volunteer tourism'

This section of the journal encourages discussion between several authors on a policy- related topic. The same question may, therefore, be addressed from different theoretical, cultural or spatial perspectives. Dialogues may be applied or highly abstract. This Dialogue starts with this contribution and is followed by four comments by Sharpley https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2017.1362798; Reid https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2017.1362799; Coghlan https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2017.1362800 and, finally, Burrai and Hannam's reflections prompted by the observations of fellow contributors https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2017.1362810.