Backpaking lifestyle
crises and broader societal alienation as travel push factors, others traced their enduring
involvement with tourism to childhood holiday experiences. The latter demonstrate the
propensity for tourism practice to become socially embedded in individual’s lives from an
early life stage, albeit the dominant tourism form may change.
Second, contrary to Sussman’s (2000) work on the reverse culture shock of repatriates
and suggestions that backpackers successfully reorientate themselves to their origin society
upon return (Noy & Cohen, 2005), the lifestyle travellers did not adjust to feelings of
conflicting social norms and cultural confusion (Hottola, 2004) experienced when returning
home. The perceived anomie and reverse cultural confusion that often prevents these lifestyle
travellers from re-assimilating into their generating societies, however, is not mainly due to
cultural assimilation of the varied values and behaviours of the indigenous communities they
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