Beyond Backpacker Tourism

Author : Kevin Hannam,Anya Diekmann
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845411305

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Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the 'flashpacker' and alternative destinations.

Author : Kevin Hannam,Anya Diekmann
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845411909

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Beyond Backpacker Tourism by Kevin Hannam,Anya Diekmann Pdf

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the ‘flashpacker’ and alternative destinations. Chapters include material on flashpacking, the virtualization of backpacker culture, the re-conceptualisation of lifestyle travellers, backpackers as volunteer tourists, as well as backpackers' experiences of hostels, mobilities and their policy implications. It sets a new benchmark for the study of independent travel in the contemporary world.

Author : Kevin Hannam,Irena Ateljevic
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845413088

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Backpacker Tourism by Kevin Hannam,Irena Ateljevic Pdf

The search for new tourism experiences as well as changes in the tourism industry itself has led to new forms of individualised travel and consequentially new forms of backpacker tourism. This volume provides an up to date examination of the behaviour, attitudes and motivations of backpacker tourists as well as the growth of the infrastructure behind backpacker tourism phenomenon throughout the world. Drawing upon insights from geography, sociology, anthropology, management and marketing, Backpacker Tourism provides theoretically informed case studies of individual destinations of backpackers. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of backpacker tourism as well as those involved in the backpacker tourism industry itself.

Author : Márcio Ribeiro Martins,Rui Augusto da Costa
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802622577

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The Backpacker Tourist by Márcio Ribeiro Martins,Rui Augusto da Costa Pdf

The Backpacker Tourist: A contemporary perspective explores the increasing number of people traveling around the world as backpackers and analyses the great diversification of this demographic and their varied experiences while traveling.

Author : Mark P. Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135933081

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Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development by Mark P. Hampton Pdf

There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant economic development impacts of backpacker tourism upon local communities especially in areas with the largest concentrations of backpackers (South and South-East Asia particularly Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and India), as well as increasingly in Latin America. This volume provides a focused review of the economic development impacts of backpacker tourism in developing regions furthering knowledge on how backpacker tourism can play a crucial role in development strategies in these areas. First, it reviews the origins of the backpackers with a detailed examination of their "hippy" predecessors on the overland trail, before discussing the emergence of modern backpackers including social and cultural aspects, and how new technologies are changing their experience. It then analyses the powerful economic development impacts of backpackers on local host communities in cities and rural areas with a special focus on coastal destinations. Extensive case study material is used from backpacker destinations across Asia, Latin America and Africa. In doing so the book provides original insights into how backpacker tourism is highly significant for poverty alleviation and effective local development since it has strong linkages to the local economy, and less economic leakage than conventional tourism. Written by a leading academic in this area, this volume will be of interest to students of Tourism and Development Studies.

Author : Greg Richards,Julie Wilson
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1873150768

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The Global Nomad by Greg Richards,Julie Wilson Pdf

Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. Links are drawn between theory and practice, setting backpacking in its wider social, cultural and economic context.

Author : Tim Ramsden
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426982330

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Backpacking Beyond Boundaries by Tim Ramsden Pdf

Backpacking Beyond Boundaries is the story of a young man who puts his career on hold in search of adventure and the discovery of his inner being. He leaves South Africa in 1990 while Nelson Mandela is still in prison and South Africa ruled by a white minority government. His travels take him through 35 countries and cultures as far afield as South East Asia where he spends one year; exotic islands of Thailand, hitchhiking through Malaysia, charming beauty of Sri Lanka, overland through India into Nepal and finally back to Thailand. He also buses through Morocco and into the Sahara Desert. In Turkey he joins a group of 11 fellow backpackers and travels across the country. Behind the Iron Curtain he visits East Germany and the Berlin Wall, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary seeing communism at work. In 1996 he returns to a free South Africa, one now with equal rights and called the Rainbow Nation, before choosing a new life in Canada. In 2003 he travels to Namibia and reconnects with his army past. And in 2005 he makes a special journey to Mozambique with two army friends to see the prison where one of them was held captive.

Author : Klaus Westerhausen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015052669101

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Beyond the Beach by Klaus Westerhausen Pdf

'Beyond th Beach' examines drifter-style tourism, a sanitized and institutionalized tourism alternative, in Asia. Over the last thirty years drifter tourism has developed its own myth and spawned a mobile subculture of Western travellers.

Author : Matthias Fuchs,Francesco Ricci,Lorenzo Cantoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3709111412

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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012 by Matthias Fuchs,Francesco Ricci,Lorenzo Cantoni Pdf

The papers presented in this volume advance the state of the art in social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, web site and search engine optimization, technology adoption and diffusion, online communities, tourism management and decision support, eLearning, mobile technologies and applications in tourism, recommender systems, e-intermediaries and networks in tourism, customer research in e-tourism and user generated content. The volume collects research papers of prominent scholars from around the world with a disciplinary background in the fields of social or computer sciences. The book covers among the most significant topics within the study field of electronic tourism and, likewise, addresses academics and practitioners interested in latest advancements in the electronic travel and tourism domain.

Author : Chaim Noy,Erik Cohen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791483008

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Israeli Backpackers by Chaim Noy,Erik Cohen Pdf

In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research—based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad—this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.

Author : Kevin Hannam,Irena Ateljevic
Publisher : Tourism and Cultural Change
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02815366I

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Backpacker Tourism by Kevin Hannam,Irena Ateljevic Pdf

'Backpacker Tourism' provides an up-to-date assessment of the backpacker phenomenon, drawing on information from various disciplines, such as geography, sociology, anthropology, management and marketing.

Author : Michael O'Regan
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845418090

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Backpacking Culture and Mobilities by Michael O'Regan Pdf

This book presents new contributions in backpacking research from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, motives and behaviours. It takes a fresh, critical and reflexive look at over 40 years of backpacking research and seeks to recentre backpacking research before introducing new perspectives on backpacking and global backpacker cultures from previously unexplored perspectives. The chapters examine contemporary backpacker culture and mobilities, and the value and worth of backpacking both for individuals seeking an alternative life course and transformation, and destinations and businesses who value their economic and cultural potential. The volume aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpacking’s future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Jia Xie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000410570

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Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers by Jia Xie Pdf

An activity that originated in Western societies, backpacking has gained increasing popularity among Chinese millennials. In a spirit of the ‘search for self’, young Chinese backpackers have sought to display their pursuit of freedom, independence and responsibility within an increasingly individualised society through backpacking. This volume investigates contemporary young Chinese persons’ views on backpacking culture and backpackers. A group of Chinese backpackers are studied using interview and participant observation, and focus groups are conducted to study young professionals’ and university students’ attitudes towards backpacking. The results indicate a profound cultural change along with a degree of division. On the one hand, the backpackers often begin their journey due to a desire to pursue freedom, and use the pursuit as a process of reflexive awareness; on the other hand, the risks of pursuing a freewheeling lifestyle within an individualised society drive the majority of them to return home. The author concludes that this phenomenon is a kind of ‘staged individualism’, describing how Chinese millennials strike a balance between individual interests and wider social obligations. Students and scholars of sociology tourism, and youth culture will be interested in this volume.

Author : Jonathon Friday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Tourism
ISBN : OCLC:225023990

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Performing Authenticity by Jonathon Friday Pdf

Author : Janice Horton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008302689

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The Backpacking Housewife (The Backpacking Housewife, Book 1) by Janice Horton Pdf

‘A feelgood read that reminds us it’s never too late to live the life you want’ 4* SUN One mum is leaving it all behind for the adventure of a lifetime...