Tourist identity is an important component of the postmodern identity. This review paper
unveils the role of travel guidebooks as identity construction agents at a time when tourism …

This study aims to understand how the pursuit of language skills influences the travel
experience of those who travel with language learning goals as a primary or secondary …

This study examines the differences in motivations for backpackers who made first-time and
repeat backpacking trips in Shanghai. The backpackers were personally interviewed in …

This article explores the phenomenological and socially constructed experience of time
during the finite period of the vacation. Temporal routine is considered as a form of social …

For emerging adults, embarking on a career is both exciting and daunting—social changes
and globalization have yielded increasing opportunities together with increasing challenges …

Attempts to address undesirable behaviors that trigger backpacker-community conflict have
overlooked the nexus between perceived skills development and behavioral enactments …

Backpackers have been distinguished by their demographics, motivations, behaviors, and
activities. This transnational study proposes a valueactivity model that examines the causal …

Backpacking has become increasingly popular as an ecotourism activity in China in recent
years. To promote sustainable development of tourist sites and to direct and regulate …