Description
Product ID: | 9781845418069 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Tourism and Cultural Change |
Title: | Backpacking Culture and Mobilities |
Subtitle: | Independent and Nomadic Travel |
Authors: | Author: Michael O'Regan |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Sociology and anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, Hospitality and service industries, Walking, hiking, trekking, Tourism industry, Hospitality industry, Walking, hiking, trekking |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Channel View Publications |
Publisher Name: | Channel View Publications Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-01-16 |