The global nomad: backpacker travel in theory and practice. Clevedon, UK: channel view.

Richards, G & Wilson, J (2004)

The systematic investigation of backpacker travellers has now become a recognised and valuable branch of tourism scholarship. It has, however, been viewed by the agency of some as relatively inchoate in limits of research directions and systematic findings. This volume would seem to represent a valuable contribution to the disciplinary parameters, the classificatory a whole s and dissemination of research findings; the turn is also a useful exercise in the explication of a novel major international survey of backpacker characteristics, motivations and behaviour,