TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martins,Márcio Ribeiro
AU  - Costa,Rui Augusto da
TI  - The backpacker tourist: a contemporary perspective 
T2  - The tourist experience
SN  - 9781802622577
U1  - 796.51 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Bingley, U.K.
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Backpacking
KW  - Tourists
KW  - Business & Economics
KW  - Industries
KW  - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
KW  - Tourism industry
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1. Introduction: Backpacker tourism, a contemporary overview -- Chapter 2. Concepts and segments of backpacker tourists -- Chapter 3. Backpackers' socio-demographic characteristics, travel organization and the impact of new technologies -- Chapter 4. Backpackers' travel motivations -- Chapter 5. Space-time perspectives of backpacker tourists -- Chapter 6. Conclusions: The future of backpacker tourists and managerial implications
N2  - Previously viewed as a relatively small group of errant travellers rooted in counter-cultural ideas, backpackers have now become a powerful tourist sector of predominantly young travellers, planning and preparing their own trips, and looking for direct cultural contact, novelty and spontaneity all around the globe. The Backpacker Tourist: A contemporary perspective explores the increasing number of people traveling around the world as backpackers and analyses the great diversification of this demographic and their varied experiences while traveling. Martins and Costa highlight the conflicting interpretations in the literature on backpackers and the comparative reflexion between Western and the growing number of Eastern backpackers, particularly relating to their travel motivations and the way they experience destinations. The Backpacker Tourist presents new perspectives to researchers of Tourism Studies and the Sociology of Travel, but also to those who looking for a synthetical, contemporary and critical analysis of contemporary backpacker tourists
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/9781802622553
ER  -