Beyond Backpacker Tourism
Beyond Backpacker Tourism

Author: Kevin Hannam

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2010-02-02

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1845411900

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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. 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.

Backpacking Beyond Boundaries
Backpacking Beyond Boundaries

Author: Tim Ramsden

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-08

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 142698233X

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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.

Backpacker Tourism
Backpacker Tourism

Author: Kevin Hannam

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1845410777

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Backpacker tourism has shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the mainstream. Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and profiles explores the current state of the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. Links are drawn between conceptual issues and case studies, setting backpacking in its wider social, cultural and economic context.

Israeli Backpackers
Israeli Backpackers

Author: Chaim Noy

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0791483002

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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.

The Global Nomad
The Global Nomad

Author: Greg Richards

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781873150764

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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.

The Backpacker Tourist
The Backpacker Tourist

Author: Márcio Ribeiro Martins

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1802622551

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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.

Beyond the Hippy Trail to India
Beyond the Hippy Trail to India

Author: Simon Andrews

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Starting with an overland trip to India in 1975, a true story of a journey through 40 countries. Unusual and life changing experiences often happen more when traveling than in our own home environment and often when least expected."Beyond the Hippy Trail to India" is a true story that mixes the wonderlust of a backpacker with exposure to a World of unexpected danger through five continents.

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012

Author: Matthias Fuchs

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-01-13

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9783709111413

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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.

Backpacker Tourism
Backpacker Tourism

Author: Kevin Hannam

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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'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.