Content: 1. From Backpacking to Flashpacking: Developments in backpacker tourism research / Kevin Hannam and Anya Diekmann --
2. Not such a rough or lonely planet? Backpacker tourism: an academic journey / Mark P. Hampton --
3. Flashpacking in Fiji: Reframing the 'global nomad' in a developing destination / Jeff Jarvis and Victoria Peel --
4. The Virtualization of Backpacker Culture: Virtual Mooring, Sustained Interactions, and Enhanced Mobilities / Cody Paris --
5. Re-Conceptualising Lifestyle Travellers: Contemporary 'drifters' / Scott Cohen --
6. Backpacker Hostels: Place and Performance / Michael O'Regan --
7. Euro-railing: A Mobile-Ethnography of Backpacker Train Travel / James Johnson --
8. Budget Backpackers Testing Comfort Zones in Mongolia / Claudia Bell --
9. Lesbian Identities Backpacker Travel Experiences in New Zealand / Linda Myers --
10. Backpackers as Volunteer Tourists: Evidence from Tanzania / Kath Laythorpe --
11. Backpackers in Norway: Landscapes, ties and platforms / Gareth Butler --
12. Town of 1770, Australia --
The Creation of a new Backpacker Brand / Peter Welk --
13. A Clash of Cultures or Definitions? Complexity and backpacker tourism in residential communities / Robyn Bushell and Kay Anderson --
14. Towards Strategic Planning for an Emerging Backpacker Tourism Destination: The South African Experience / Christian Rogerson