term budget travellers’ represent similar attempts to cast a terminological net around this type of tourist, it is the drifter concept that inspires ‘one of the prevalent trends of contemporary tourism’ (Cohen, 1973, p. 90), backpacker tourism. The succinct and less pejorative epithet ‘backpacker’ gained momentum from the late 1990s (O’Reilly, 2006) as a descriptor for predominantly young, budget tourists on extended holiday (Loker-Murphy & Pearce, 1995). More recently, Maoz and Bekerman (2010, p. 426) describe backpackers as ‘relatively young tourists who tend to gather in ghettos or enclaves: places where large numbers congregate to experience home comforts and the company of tourists of similar interests.’ This latter enclavic focus reflects an institutionalisation of the backpacking phenomenon, a mainstreaming decried by some authors (Cohen, 2003; O’Reilly, 2006) for its alignment with the stigma of mass tourism
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