10. Profiling the International Backpacker Market in Australia

Slaughter, Lee

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“…Males respondents were most prevalent in the early backpacker research (Cohen, 1972;Riley, 1988;Teas, 1988), but more recent literature suggest that there is almost an even breakdown between male and female (Loker- Murphy & Pearce, 1995;Sorensen, 2003;Uriely, Yonay, and Simchai, 2002;Slaughter 2004) or even instances where females outnumber males (Murphy, 2001). Over 63% of the respondents were between ages 21 and 30, while 15.6% were between 18 and 20, and 13.8% were over 36 years old.…”

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Backpacker Activities and Personal Values: An SEM approach

Paris

2010

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…Further, it has been greatly concentrated in Australia and New Zealand (Cooper, O'Mahony, & Erfurt, 2004;Kain & King, 2004;Murphy, 2001;Pearce, 1990;Slaughter, 2004;Vance, 2004). Previous literature has suggested a need to examine global differences among backpackers and the backpacker market (Richards & Wilson, 2004c;Pearce, 2006).…”

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Backpacker Activities and Personal Values: An SEM approach

Paris

2010

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…not known to what extent backpackers from Asia retain their independence as claimed by Slaughter (2004). Asian backpackers are more budget conscious and this clearly indicates that they prefer the mainstream way of backpacking (Loker-Murphy & Pearce, 1995;Murphy, 2001;Sorensen, 2003;Teo & Leong, 2006).…”

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“…In practice, however, backpackers often do take tours (Slaughter, 2004) and visit the same famous tourist attractions as other tourists (Hottola, 2008;Kain & King, 2004;Slaughter, 2004). Another backpacker cultural status symbol is the ability to bargain and get a good or 'local' price.…”

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A comparison between Asian and Australasia backpackers using cultural consensus analysis

Paris

Musa

Thirumoorthi

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…According to Slaughter (2004), many studies on backpackers show that most of them are budget travelers and are relatively young. The vast majority of such backpack travelers are younger than thirty years of age.…”

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Information Research in Leisure: Implications from an Empirical Study of Backpackers

Chang¹

2009

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In the modern, increasingly flat world, many individuals have seen an increase in the amount of leisure time they have available. This leisure time is used for different purposes, often including travel and tourism. Among the many types of travel and tourism, backpack or budget travelling is becoming more and more popular. This increasingly common leisure activity presumably involves intensive information search activities.This study places the backpackers' search for travel information in an everyday life information seeking (ELIS) perspective. The search for information by backpackers can be seen as a three-stage information search process. In each stage, depending on the type of task, backpackers use various information resources for different purposes. Such sources may be used for more than one purpose and in more than one information search stage. However, their relative importance varies depending on the characteristics of the source of information and the information search stage in which the source is being used.In this article I suggest that studies of leisure information behaviors and leisure activities show theoretical and practical value for both the information seeking public and the information science community. We also suggest that library and information science scholars and practice communities direct attention and research resources to leisure research in general, and the concept of serious leisure and its structured information acquisition and sharing activities in particular.

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10. Profiling the International Backpacker Market in Australia

Cited by 13 publications

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Backpacker Activities and Personal Values: An SEM approach

Backpacker Activities and Personal Values: An SEM approach

A comparison between Asian and Australasia backpackers using cultural consensus analysis

Information Research in Leisure: Implications from an Empirical Study of Backpackers

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