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Backpacking and Identity Construction: Self-Ethnography of a Married Female Backpacker

open access: yesRedai dili, 2023
The identity construction of a "backpacker" has always been an important topic in research on backpacking. Most current studies analyze the backpacker group as a whole, with insufficient investigation into the differences among different groups.
Sun Qiong, Li Lin, Huang Xiankai
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a Model of Backpackers’ Exploratory Curiosity [PDF]

open access: yesTourism and Hospitality Management, 2021
Purpose – While curiosity is a critical factor in motivating human exploratory behaviors across domains, past studies are yet to explore the exploratory curiosity construct in the context of backpacking.
Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsu
doaj   +1 more source

Lifestyle travellers: Backpacking as a way of life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Scholarship on backpackers speculates some individuals may extend backpacking to a way of life. This article empirically explores this proposition using lifestyle consumption as its framing concept and conceptualises individuals who style their lives ...
Adler   +73 more
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Backpackerzy z pokolenia milenialsów o ryzyku związanym z podróżowaniem: ujęcie typologiczne

open access: yesTourism, 2020
Na potrzeby niniejszego artykułu analizie poznawczej poddano kategoryzację ryzyka wpisanego w doświadczenia podróżnicze backpackerów z pokolenia milenialsów.
Jolanta Barbara Jabłonkowska   +1 more
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Backpacking in Mato Grosso do Sul - routes and cultural perspectives

open access: yesEntre-Lugar, 2021
Backpacking, one of the ways of making tourism, has significantly increased the number of fans as an alternative segment to conventional tourism.
Regerson Franklin Santos
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering and conquering infirmity of visually impaired using AI‐technology equipped with object detection and real‐time voice feedback system in healthcare application

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Millennial backpackers and risks in travel: a typological approach

open access: yesTourism, 2020
In the research undertaken, the analysis categorised risk in the experience of the millennial generation of backpackers. An attempt was made to systematise it on the basis of the cognitive as well as emotional characteristics presented by the respondents.
Jolanta Barbara Jabłonkowska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformational tourism – a systematic literature review and research agenda [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Tourism Futures, 2022
Purpose – This paper aims to examine critically the literature on transformational tourism and explore a research agenda for a post-COVID future. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic review of the transformational tourism literature is performed ...
Roshini Nandasena   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Karakteristik backpacker nusantara dalam komunitas “backpacker international”

open access: yesJurnal Ilmiah Hospitality Management, 2022
In society’s perception, backpackers are generally travelers who choose to travel for long periods of time, at low costs using public transportation and relatively cheap accommodation. Usually, backpackers come from the lower middle class because they want to travel that is cost-effective but rich in experience.
Luh Eka Susanti   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Chasing a myth? Searching for ‘self’ through lifestyle travel. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper problematises the concept of searching for self in the context of lifestyle travellers – individuals for whom extended leisure travel is a preferred lifestyle that they return to repeatedly.
Cohen, Scott
core   +1 more source

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