Backpaking lifestyle
allow for a more open appraisal of transient styles of life fashioned around patterns of
meaningful consumption.
Although the concept of lifestyle is gaining speed as a theoretical tool amongst social
scientists, it has until now received little import as a perspective of social analysis within the
field of tourism. The uptake of lifestyle as an analytical device in tourism has been largely
limited to quantitative approaches that use psychographics to segment travel behaviour (see
Lee & Sparks, 2007). Outside of tourism, Adler and Adler (1999) examine the migratory
patterns of resort workers and the manifestations of their transient lifestyles. Of a similar
chord, growing sociological discussion of ‘lifestyle migration’ focuses on individuals who
migrate in search of a ‘better’ way of life (Benson & O'Reilly, 2009). These lines of research
transverse the intersections of mobility, lifestyle, and social meanings
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