Why do strangers help each other in travel contexts?
Have you ever found yourself in a troubling situation while travelling abroad only to rely on the kindness of strangers to sort through the problem? Have you ever engaged in an act of kindness to assist a beleaguered tourist or traveller--someone you didn't know--to help them through a jam? These scenarios are surprisingly common to travel experiences, yet under-examined.
The purpose of this project is to explore acts of kindness involving encounters with strangers who either give or receive assistance in response to a problem within travel contexts. To this end, the project aims to explore motivations and implications of acts of kindness to get a better sense of what factors promote or inhibit generosity, kindness, and responsibility involving strangers.
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