Backpaking lifestyle
of ‘home-on-the-move’, in which the closest travellers come to finding a sense of home is
through dwelling in movement, by being at home on the road. Despite the tensions of longing
for a single place to settle down, the present research indicates that lifestyle travellers
inevitably move again and it is in this way that travel becomes a way of life.
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CONCLUSION
Several authors have theorised that for a small number of backpacker tourists,
involvement in backpacking may extend to a way of life (Noy & Cohen, 2005; Welk, 2004;
Westerhausen, 2002). In casting the concept of lifestyle as a net of social analysis, I have
empirically supported these speculations through exploring the practices, shared meanings
and social identity of lifestyle travellers who style their lives around the enduring practice of
backpacking
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