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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Backpacker tourism: definitions, methods, debates
Description: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2417858#abstractAbstractThis commentary explains how backpacker research has been developed within and beyond tourism geography in the past 25 years. Based on a selective review of the backpacker literature, it identifies three enduring issues to form the basis for a future research agenda. Firstly, the question of how to define backpackers. Secondly, the methods used to understand backpacking. Thirdly, the debate regarding whether or not backpackers and working holiday makers are synonymous. The paper argues the lack of a shared definition of backpackers distorts perceptions of th...