Backpaking lifestyle
versus recreational reasons, arguably subsuming this divide. Bridging a travel-occupation gap
often also manifested in a desire to bring the company of fellow backpackers to themselves
without actually having to physically travel, whether it be through opening a hostel, budget
resort or small adventure tourism firm. Participants based their aspiration of continued
involvement with tourists largely on experiences of belonging and community encountered
whilst backpacking. Fleeting moments of Turnerian ‘communitas’ (1982) also inspired the
participants’ most commonly cited ambition, which was to find a new place to call ‘home’.
Resembling Cohen’s (1979) ‘existential mode’ of touristic experience, yet more mobile
and ephemeral than Benson and O’Reilly’s (2009) idyll-seeking lifestyle migrants, several
participants ultimately aspired to find an ideal place to settle. This unspecified idyllic place
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