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Unpacking the Backpacker: : Mapping the Backpacking Identifications to Understand the Backpacking Consumers

open access: yes
This study explores the diverse identities within the backpacking phenomenon - educational, traditional, and flashpacker - tracing their historical roots and motivations. The significance of understanding these identities lies in their economic impact on the tourism sector.
Kålbäck, Olivia, Gräns, Anna-Rose
core   +4 more sources

South Africans Walking the Camino: Pilgrimage or Adventure [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2020
The Camino Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is an institution that has been operative for more than 1200 years. The European summer months see hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, whether they be persons of faith, agnostics or even atheists, walking ...
Nico Kotze, Tracey McKay
doaj   +1 more source

Backpacking

open access: yes, 1979
Issued Dec. 1979.Supersedes Backpacking in the National forest wilderness, a family adventure, Program aid no. 585, issued 1975.Mode of access: Internet.
United States. Forest Service.   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Backpack [PDF]

open access: yesTopics in Clinical Nutrition, 2018
The Personal Data Store (PDS), herein referred to as the Backpack, was proposed as an opportunity to improve the experience of accessing services and enabling integrated and person-centred care. The project explored the potential solution developed by the project partners: Mydex CIC, a community interest company who specialise in personal data ...
Teal, Gemma, French, Tara, Bradley, Jay
openaire   +3 more sources

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

An exploration into Gen Ys attitudes and behaviour towards volunteering whilst backpacking

open access: yes, 2021
This study focuses on Generation Ys’ attitudes and behaviour towards engaging in volunteer tourism whilst backpacking. To that end, we first examine Gen Ys’ generational characteristics and the predominant attitudes and behaviours displayed by this ...
Eleni Michopoulou   +5 more
core   +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

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

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

Paradigma Historis Backpacking Travel Sebagai Perjalanan Wisata

open access: yesJurnal Pariwisata Terapan, 2019
Nowadays backpacking travel is the most popular travelling style which famous to the youth traveller. According to the history, the travelling style can be tracked from the nomadic tribes in all corner of the world for their moving habit for run their ...
Pitaya Pitaya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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