num_pages: 312
description: Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. Links are drawn between theory and practice, setting backpacking in its wider social, cultural and economic context.
language: English
title: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice
titlecomplete: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice (Tourism and Cultural Change, 3)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Channel View Publications