Volunteering to help people in need combinedtravelling to faraway places is new trend in the travel industry. It is called voluntourism. People travel to other countries, learn languages and other cultures and gain new ( experience ). Recent statistics show that in the past few years voluntourism ( be) one of the fastest - growing areas of tourism, More than 1.6 million people around the world are volunteers in other countries. They work in orphanages (孤儿院), help build schools, assist in hospitals and do farming work in (develop) countries. There are many reasons people want to engage in voluntourism, Students see it as a gap year after school, while others (simple) want to take time out from a job and do something else. However, some voluntourists do not see volunteering what it is. They only think it is a cheap way (travel)and don't really want to get (involve) in hard work.