This study investigates how volunteer tourism's critical events can elicit reflections about participant's careers and lead to personal/professional. Content analysis of qualitative data obtained from semistructured interviews with 20 Brazilian volunteers suggests that adverse conditions of the destination, unusual situations faced during the program, and culture shock experienced at the host community, triggered transformative learning processes involving changes in social‐linguistic, psychological, and moral‐ethical perspectives, often interwoven. Research also suggests that volunteer tourism contributes to the practitioner's career sustainability and employability, as well as to careers re‐evaluations resulting from new behaviors and worldviews developed during their experience.

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志愿旅游，变革性学习及其对职业的影响：以巴西志愿人员为例

这项研究调查了志愿者旅游业的重大事件如何引起对参与者职业的思考并导致个人/专业人士的发展。从与20名巴西志愿者进行的半结构化访谈中获得的定性数据的内容分析表明，目的地的不利条件，计划中遇到的异常情况以及东道国社区遭受的文化冲击，引发了涉及社会语言，心理，和道德伦理观点，经常相互交织。研究还表明，志愿旅游有助于从业者的职业可持续性和就业能力，以及从业者在经历中发展出的新行为和世界观对职业进行的重新评估。