Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and Profiles (Tourism and by Kevin Hannam, Irena Ateljevic
By Kevin Hannam, Irena Ateljevic
Backpacker tourism has shifted from the margins of the commute into the mainstream. Backpacker Tourism: innovations and profiles explores the present country of the overseas backpacker phenomenon, drawing jointly diverse disciplinary views on its which means, impression and value. hyperlinks are drawn among conceptual matters and case stories, surroundings backpacking in its wider social, cultural and financial context.
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G. Said, 1995) has been imbedded in Western culture and is therefore inevitably reproduced also by backpacker tradition, and confirmed by the accordingly staged representations along the beaten track. MacCannell (1999: 93) speaks about a weakened sense of reality, which could be discovered on both 32 Part 1: Conceptualising Backpacker Tourism sides of the tourist Á host interaction. On the other hand, stereotyping is a necessary psychological tool for control enhancement in a situation of fragmentary and uncertain information (see Adler, 1991; Gannon, 1994).
This pattern was discovered to be omnipresent irrespective of the phase of the visit or individual abilities in intercultural adaptation. Backpackers have established their own multipolar and, to some degree, mobile enclave on the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of the world (cf. Westerhausen, 2002: 40Á 41). Staged Authenticity and the Tourist Gaze According to Boorstin (1961), tourists prefer to disregard reality, stay in ‘environmental bubbles’ rather than in contact with the host society, and enjoy ‘pseudo-events’ instead of authenticity.
Second, sustainability can be conceived as a moving target, a desired goal for the striving of human effort rather than a well defined tangible state. Sustainability is therefore linked to a position of learned optimism in that small efforts matter and make progress towards a goal (Seligman, 1998). 1 Key institutional events guiding the sustainability agenda 1. The reports to the Club of Rome (early 1960s) that stressed a limit to growth approach and quite pessimistic predictions about energy and fossil fuel shortages.