Beyond Backpacker Tourism: Mobilities and Experiences
β Scribed by Kevin Hannam (editor); Anya Diekmann (editor)
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 253
- Series
- Tourism and Cultural Change; 21
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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 βflashpackerβ and alternative destinations.
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