Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation

Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation

•Proposes a research agenda on the reconceptualisation of a ‘backpacker’.•Diverse inclusion criteria are being used by current backpacker researchers.•Contends the existing criteria are a source of confusion – unrepresentative.•Calls for research focus on a more precise and comprehensive inclusion c...

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Published in:Annals of tourism research Vol. 66; pp. 191 - 193
Main Authors: Dayour, Frederick, Kimbu, Albert N., Park, Sangwon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Elsevier Ltd 01-09-2017
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:
Backpackers
Backpacking
Definitional criteria
Flashpackers
Literature reviews
Operational criteria
Reconceptualisation
Tourism
Definitional criteria
Flashpackers
Backpackers
Reconceptualisation
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Summary:•Proposes a research agenda on the reconceptualisation of a ‘backpacker’.•Diverse inclusion criteria are being used by current backpacker researchers.•Contends the existing criteria are a source of confusion – unrepresentative.•Calls for research focus on a more precise and comprehensive inclusion criteria(ion) for backpackers. Indubitably, an eclectic body of academic literature exists on backpacking dating back from the start of the 1990s. However, the characterisation of backpackers in several studies points evidently to incongruities among researchers. Consequently, there is as yet no standard operational criteria for defining backpackers. Ergo, this paper reviews the existing literature in tourism and rouses the need to rethink the definition of a backpacker for valid data gathering.
ISSN:0160-7383
1873-7722
DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.004