Backpacking Culture and Mobilities: Independent and Nomadic Travel

This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpacking’s future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research.

Michael O’Regan is a Lecturer in Events and Tourism, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Brighton and his research is focused on tourist, urban, historic, future, alternative, lifestyle, slow and cultural mobilities, backpacking and outbound Chinese tourism.