Backpackers and empowered local communities
Natural Allies in the Struggle for Sustainability and Local Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5942732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus Westerhausen, Jim Macbeth |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-86 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourism Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1461668032000034088 |
| OpenAlex | W2007941212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Drifter-style tourism world-wide has become a sanitized and institutionalized tourism alternative. Over the last thirty years it has developed its own tourism myth and spawned a mobile sub-culture of international backpackers. Utilizing an almost entirely separate tourism infrastructure, these travellers follow distinctive trails of their own. Dotted along these trails, like magnets in a stream of charged particles, lie sub-cultural meeting places. These traveller centres are more than simply infrastructure or scenery; their ‘fame’, their world status as ‘must do’ places, transcends their physical attributes as they develop, maintain and then frequently loose this mythical quality. At the same time, the local inhabitants of those communities have frequently represented little more than pawns in a much larger game controlled by outsiders. However, while in the past this ‘resort cycle’ was accepted as inevitable, there have been a number of instances where local residents’ resistance against the intended transformation of their community has resulted in attempts to slow down if not terminate this cycle altogether. This study of Byron Bay, Australia, suggests that backpackers may well represent natural allies as well as an alternative market for those communities engaged in the struggle for sustainability and local control
Archaeology · Control (management · Economics · Geography · Local community · Management · Mythology · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Sustainability · Tourism · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · History · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Understanding backpacker sustainable behavior using the tri-component attitude model
Growing up in a tourist destination
I am not a tourist
Understanding the place-making practices of backpackers
Backpacker Activities and Personal Values
Non-amenity business growth and small town revival
Victims, hooligans and cash-cows
An investigation into customer satisfaction levels in the budget accommodation sector in Scotland
Tourists for hire
Backpackers—What is the Peak Experience
Pai—A Backpacker Enclave in Transition
Sun, Sand, and Beach Fale
Niche Strategies for Small Regional Cities
Backpacker enclaves research
A postcolonial analysis of backpacking
Indigenous Long Grassers
Self-orientalism, joke-work and host-tourist relation
They really love me
A Middle Eastern Muslim Tourist Enclave in Bangkok
Residents' attitudes toward ethnic neighborhood tourism (ENT)
Backpacker tourism
Independent Travel
| Citations per year | 0.96 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |