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Backpacker tourism: the contemporary face of youth tourism
Unpublished paper (2005)
Greg Richards and Julie Wilson
The modern backpacker is arguably an integral part of the postmodern ‘new world order of mobility’. Backpackers are to be found in every corner of the globe, from r
emotevillages in the Hindu Kush to the centres of London or Paris. They carry with them notonly their emblematic physical baggage that gives them their name, but their culturalbaggage as well. Their path is scattered with the trappings of the backpacker culture
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banana pancakes, bars with ‘video nights’ and cheap hostels.