BETWEEN KHAO SAN AND LONELY PLANET

• 발행기관: 세계문화관광학회
• 저자명: Gü ter Spreitzhofer
• 간행물 정보: 『Conference Proceedings』8th International Joint World Cultural Tourism Conference 2007, 192~201쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 관광학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.11.30

영문 초록

Post-modem backpacking has come to be appreciated by Southeast Asian governments as a development tool after the dramatic decrease of package tourist arrivals due to terrorism, diseases and natural disasters since the late 1990s. Special focus has been put on backpacking performance, perception and transformation within the region, where the massing of youthful travellers has been obvious for more than three decades, when the first underground guidebook for independent travellers was published in the 1970s. Special attention has been put on the increasing commercialization (Lonely Planet, guidebook series) and the booming urban infrastructure (Khao San Road, Bangkok) of this "anti-tourist" (?) travel style, which seems to lead a new comfort-, shopping- and fun-oriented backpacker clientele rather than the ideologically-minded anti-consumerism backpackers of the 1980s on well-troden paths across the subcontinent.

목차

Abstract

1. Individual tourism as the 'golden goal' of tourism planning? An Introduction

2. The social background of Southeast Asian backpackers

3. The myth of the common backpacker: adventurers, invaders or both?

4. Positive or negative contributions to local development?

5. Conclusion: Give individual tourism a fair chance?

References

키워드

low-budget tourism backpacking grassroots development socio-cultural change economic impact