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This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption. 

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"The search for new tourism experiences as well as changes in the tourism industry itself has led to new forms of individualised travel and consequentially new forms of backpacker tourism. This volume provides an up-to-date examination of the behaviour, attitudes and motivations of backpacker tourists as well as the growth of the infrastructure behind backpacker tourism phenomenon throughout the world. Drawing upon insights from geography, sociology, anthropology, management and marketing, "Backpacker Tourism" provides theoretically informed case studies of individual destinations of backpackers. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of backpacker tourism as well as those involved in the backpacker tourism industry itself.

Backpacking. --- Backpacking --- Sports and tourism. --- Randonnée sac au dos --- Sports et tourisme --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Sports and tourism --- Social aspects --- Social Sciences --- Recreation & Sports --- 379.851.41 --- kampeertoerisme --- a toerisme --- Sports and tourist trade --- Tourism and sports --- Tourism --- Back packing --- Packing (Transportation) --- Camping --- Hiking --- Pack transportation --- jongerentoerisme, kampeertoerisme en avontuurlijk reizen --- Randonnée sac au dos --- Backpacking - Social aspects --- backpacking. --- experience. --- identity. --- individualised travel. --- tourist behaviour. --- tourist industry change. --- tourist motivation.