The concept of voluntourism is particularly appealing to those people who'd really like to spend a bit of time doing something worthwhile, but aren't able or willing to give up their current lives and employment in order to spend an extended time away. Some travel companies even offer the concept of a charity short-break, a kind of city-break meets voluntourism. A chimpanzee sanctuary near Barcelona, for example, offers a long-weekend package of two days working with chimps and one day seeing the sights of Barcelona or Girona.'If volunteering overseas makes you think of pony-tailed vegans stuck in the jungle for two years with organizations like the Peace Corps and CUSO, think again … Thanks to national media attention, the tourism industry is rushing to fill a demand for a new form of specialty travel: voluntouring. '