Beyond Backpacker Tourism

Mobilities and Experiences
Herausgeber: Hannam, Kevin; Diekmann, Anya

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the 'flashpacker' and alternative destinations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Channel View Publications
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781845411312
• ISBN-10: 1845411315
• Artikelnr.: 29730845

Autorenporträt

Kevin Hannam is Chair of the ATLAS Backpacker Research Group (BRG). He is currently Professor of Tourism Development at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published widely on tourism theory and is co-author of the text Understanding Tourism and co-editor of the journal Mobilities. Anya Diekmann is coordinator of ATLAS Europe. She is Assistant Professor at the IGEAT and co-director of LIToTeS (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Tourisme, Territoire et Sociétés), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her publications include work on social tourism and aspects of cultural tourism with a particular focus on heritage and ethnic tourism.