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Young budget travelers: Backpackers in Australia
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In this paper, the authors examined young budget travelers in the context of the "backpacker" phenomenon in Australia and proposed a contemporary social definition of backpackers, including a preference for budget accommodation, an emphasis on meeting other people, an independently organized and flexible travel schedule, longer rather than brief holidays, and an emphasis of informal and participatory holiday activities.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 364 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism.read more
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Tourist roles, perceived risk and international tourism
Andrew Lepp,Heather J. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the hypothesis that tourists seeking familiarity would perceive higher levels of risk associated with international tourism than those seeking novelty was investigated, and a random sample of US-born young adults was surveyed.
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THIS TRIP REALLY CHANGED ME Backpackers' Narratives of Self-Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relation between the travel narrative, attesting to an external voyage toward an "authentic" destination, and the self-change narrative in which a profound selfchange is recounted.
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Tourism and mobile technology
Barry Brown,Matthew Chalmers +1 more
TL;DR: An ethnographic study of city tourists' practices that draws out a number of implications for designing tourist technology, including the Travelblog, which supports building travel-based web pages while on holiday.
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Exploring social interactions of backpackers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ the concepts of social situation analysis to examine the nature of interactions among backpackers in an attempt to better understand their informal networks of information dissemination, finding that gathering information on destinations/businesses is a motivation for them to interact with one another.
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Backpacking experiences: A Type and Form Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the notion of backpacking as a distinct category of tourism by distinguishing between its type- and form-related attributes was questioned, and the analysis of such differentiation refers to phenomenological typology of tourist experiences and the distinction between institutionalized and non-institutionalized tourism.
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Conceptualization of multi- destination pleasure trips
TL;DR: In this paper, a four-cell typology of pleasure trips is developed based on number of destinations visited and the trip purpose or benefits sought, and five distinctive spatial patterns evolving from this typology are identified that may be adopted by pleasure travelers.