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| Author: | Cohen, S.A. |
| Title: | Lifestyle travellers: backpacking as a way of life |
| Journal: | Annals of Tourism Research
2011 : OCT, VOL. 38:4, p. 1535-1555 |
| Index terms: | tourism travel life style consumption mobility |
| Freeterms: | identity |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Scholarship on backpackers speculates that backpacking (henceforth as: b-png.) may be extended to a way of life for some individuals (here as: indvs). This article empirically explores this proposition using lifestyle (herein as: l-s.) consumption as its framing concept and conceptualizing indvs. styling their lives around the practice of b-png. as 'lifestyle travellers'. Ethnographic interviews with l-s. travellers in India and Thailand provide an emic account of the practices, ideologies and social identity characterizing l-s. travel as a distinctive subtype within b-png. The concept of l-s. allows for a contemporary appraisal of these indvs.' patterns of meaningful consumption and wider insights into how ongoing mobility can lead to different ways of understanding identities and relating to place. |
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