Backpacker tourism: Sustainable and purposeful? Investigating the overlap between backpacker tourism and volunteer tourism motivations

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-206

  Ooi, Natalie ^a   Laing, Jennifer H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative tourism; Backpacker tourism; Impact; Motivation; Overlap; Volunteer tourism

Indexed keywords

ECOTOURISM; MARKETING; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 77949351683     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669580903395030     Document Type: Article

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