Backpaking lifestyle
context of tourism as a lens for mapping out how patterns of consumptive practices are
embedded with shared meanings that can constitute a distinct social identity. The paper’s
contribution is not only in offering the term lifestyle traveller and being the first empirical
study that has explored the meanings and experiences of individuals who backpack as a way
of life, but also in providing a window into how corporeal mobility as a lifestyle can play out
over time. As such, it extends observations that tourism is increasingly de-differentiated from
daily life (Uriely, 2005), but instead of illustrating ways in which tourism can permeate places
in which individuals reside, the present text exemplifies tourism as the everyday through the
tracking of individuals in perpetual motion. The paper thus contributes to a wider discourse in
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