Beyond Backpacker Tourism

This excellent edited collection by international scholars clearly demonstrates the ongoing research agenda of backpacking. It offers a critical contribution by engaging with the changing dynamics of backpacking and examines a range of complex issues. A delightful find in this book is that, not only are the mainstream destinations discussed but lesser known areas (such as: Mongolia, Tanzania and Norway) are evident and add to the book's richness.

-- Angela Benson, University of Brighton, UK

Beyond Backpacker Tourism provides a useful overview of the current state of backpacking and of the kind of research being undertaken on the subject.

-- Frances Brown, Seabank, Maidens, Scotland, UK * Tourism Recreation Research Vol. 36, No. 1, 2011 *

Beyond Backpacker Tourism is the newest edited volume to be produced by the Backpacker Research Group (BRG) of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education. It follows Backpacker Tourism (Hannam & Ateljevic, 2008) and The Global Nomad (Richards & Wilson, 2004). While the editors stress they did not attempt to provide an ‘‘exhaustive account of backpacker tourism research’’ (p. 1), they nevertheless succeed in presenting a thorough picture of developments within backpacker research that is as enlightening as the two previous offerings.

-- Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, Monash University, Australia * Annals of Tourism Research 38 (2011) 723-743, 20