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Beyond Backpacker Tourism: Mobilities and Experiences

Beyond Backpacker Tourism: Mobilities and Experiences

Paperback

Series: Tourism and Cultural Change, Book 21

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ISBN10: 1845411307
ISBN13: 9781845411305
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: Feb 2 2010
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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