Backpaking lifestyle
Cohen, S.A. (2011). Lifestyle travellers: Backpacking as a way of life. Annals of Tourism
Research, 38(4), 1535-1555. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2011.02.002
LIFESTYLE TRAVELLERS:
Backpacking as a way of life
Scott A. Cohena
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
a
corresponding author: School of Tourism, Dorset House, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset,
BH12 5BB, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1202 961261 Fax: +44 1202 515707 Email:
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
Scholarship on backpackers speculates some individuals may extend backpacking to a way of
life. This article empirically explores this proposition using lifestyle consumption as its
framing concept and conceptualises individuals who style their lives around the enduring
practice of backpacking as ‘lifestyle travellers’. Ethnographic interviews with lifestyle