Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation

Frederick Dayour, Albert N. Kimbu and Sangwon Park

Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, vol. 66, issue C, 191-193

Abstract: Indubitably, an eclectic body of academic literature exists on backpacking dating back from the start of the 1990s. However, the characterisation of backpackers in several studies points evidently to incongruities among researchers. Consequently, there is as yet no standard operational criteria for defining backpackers. Ergo, this paper reviews the existing literature in tourism and rouses the need to rethink the definition of a backpacker for valid data gathering.

Keywords: Backpackers; Definitional criteria; Flashpackers; Reconceptualisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.004

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