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Johansson, Sofie. "Backpackers informationsanvändning : ett sociokulturellt perspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18507.
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Jonsson, Anna, and Matilda Åsander. "Unga kvinnors riskuppfattning vid backpackerresor." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46448.
Full textIntresset för resor har ökat i stor omfattning. En växande trend under den senaste tiden är backpackerresor. Dessa resor karaktäriseras av en enklare reseform där äventyr står i fokus. Backpackerresor är förekommande speciellt hos unga resenärer. Dessa resor medför olika typer av risker för resenären att ta i beaktande, dessutom kan det uppmärksammas att kvinnor generellt sett utsätts för många risker. Målet med denna studie var därför att undersöka riskuppfattningen hos unga kvinnliga backpackers. Denna studie genomfördes med en kvalitativ metod baserad på 15 semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultaten antyder att riskuppfattning har en stor påverkan på valet av destination hos kvinnliga resenärer. Till följd av detta tenderar vissa destinationer att väljas bort på grund av de höga uppfattade riskerna. Dessutom kan en variation inom riskuppfattningen noteras över tid i samband med beslutsprocessen. Inför resan uppfattades en hög riskuppfattning som sedan minskade under resan. Följaktligen uppmärksammades återigen en ökad riskuppfattning efter resan.
com, Rebeccajanebennett@gmail, and Rebecca Jane Bennett. "Moving off the Beaten Track: Developing a Critical Literacy in Backpacker Discourse." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080625.140648.
Full textHadjipetri, Sofia. "Koloniseringen av Thailand : En postkolonial studie om svenska backpackers i Thailand." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1492.
Full textDet är en betydande andel svenska resenärer som idag reser till och runt i Thailand som ”backpackers”. Mitt syfte är att ta reda på om den svenska backpackerdominansen i Thailand skulle kunna betecknas som en kolonisering. Material och metod består av intervjuer och deltagande observation med sju informanter, samt fältundersökningar som bedrivits i Thailand. Slutresultatet tolkas med hjälp av den postkoloniala teoribildningen. Frågeställningarna koncentreras kring interaktionen mellan svenska backpackers och lokala subjekt, återvändandets betydelse, samt om en modern kolonisering i enlighet med Victor Mudimbes terminologi kan appliceras. Jag kommer fram till att svenska backpackers i Thailand visar tendenser och tillämpningar som tyder på en modern kolonisering av platserna de befinner sig på.
Helenius, Jessica. "Supporting Backpackers Needs and Travel Experiences : Design implications for communication technology." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-59631.
Full textHäggström, Sara, and Jenny Magnusson. "Den maktfulla stereotypen : En studie om mötet mellan backpackers och lokalbefolkning." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för turismvetenskap och geografi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-25379.
Full textKanning, Mark. "Influence of overseas travel experiences on the worldviews of U.S. backpackers." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1233080586/.
Full textTomaszewski, Lesley Eleanor. "Peripheral travelers: how American solo women backpackers participate in two communities of practice." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/407.
Full textEgan, Caroline Elizabeth National Centre in HIV Social Research Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Sexual behaviour of international backpackers in the context of travel in Australia." Publisher:University of New South Wales. National Centre in HIV Social Research, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43550.
Full textDayour, F. "Backpackers' perceptions of risk towards smartphone usage and risk reduction strategies, Ghana." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2018. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/849180/.
Full textOliveira, Rui José de. "Turistas estrangeiros backpackers em viagem pelo Brasil: perfil dos viajantes e características da viagem." Universidade de São Paulo, 2003. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27148/tde-11012016-102615/.
Full textThe purpose of this study is to provide an overview of independent and budget-minded tourists from abroad, denominated backpackers, travelling around the world and in Brazil, presenting its level of representation and growth in the period from 1996 to 2000. A comparison about the origin and destination of the conventional and backpacking tourist is demonstrated, highlighting the significant differences between both. Profile of this foreign tourist market segment, comprising age, gender, income, education level and nationality, is demonstrated, as well as the characteristics of backpackers\' travelling around Brazil, referent their stay, itinerary, transportation and major activities. A discussion concerning government institutions directives for determining national targets in the tourism area as for this foreign tourist segment is demonstrated, whereby Brazil offers appropriate conditions to attract backpackers. Their visits is shown to favour economic, social and environmental issues, encouraging the opening of small businesses, income generation stimulated by these tourists, enhancing a large social and cultural interchange between the tourist and the community, adding value to products made in Brazil and raising the consciousness of tourists about environmental matters which are beneficial to everyone
Chau, Kelly. "Bland vänner och bekanta : En kvalitativ studie av backpackers nätverksbeteenden och sociala kapital." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-68491.
Full textSilva, Igor Monteiro. "O mundo nÃo à tÃo grande: uma etnografia entre viajantes independentes de longa duraÃÃo." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=18900.
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Viajantes independentes de longa duraÃÃo â conhecidos como backpackers, notadamente, pela indÃstria turÃstica internacional e como mochileiros, no Brasil â podem ser caracterizados, em linhas gerais, em relaÃÃo à qualidade nÃo-institucionalizada de sua prÃtica (COHEN, 1972). Eles assumem a organizaÃÃo independente de sua viagem, evitando, assim, a compra de pacotes e demais mediaÃÃes prÃprias das agÃncias turÃsticas. Ao configurar independentemente seus deslocamentos, buscam mobilizar valores como autonomia e flexibilidade, o que os permite, por exemplo, trocar itinerÃrios, desfazer planos e extender sua mobilidade por longos perÃodos. Saber quem, concretamente, sÃo os sujeitos desses deslocamentos, que posiÃÃes sociais assumem em suas sociedades de origem, compreender por quais motivos desejam experimentar perÃodos tÃo alargados em trÃnsito, como atribuem sentido a essa forma especÃfica de viajar e como vivenciam o retorno a seus paÃses de origem, sÃo algumas das disposiÃÃes que conformam os objetivos deste trabalho. Mais claramente, a presente tese tem por objetivo apresentar uma etnografia de viagens independentes de longa duraÃÃo, considerando para tanto o movimento material, bem como as polÃticas de significado (CRESWELL, 2006), empreendidas por seus sujeitos. Por movimento material deve-se entender os deslocamentos fÃsicos dos viajantes, a maneira crua, como define Creswell (2006), de atingir um ponto partindo de outro. Jà no que concerne Ãs polÃticas de significado, tem-se como horizonte de reflexÃo tanto as representaÃÃes partilhadas pelos sujeitos no que se refere Ãs suas jornadas quanto a prÃtica das mesmas, a experiÃncia do movimento sendo incorporada e valorada individualmente. O que apresenta-se aqui, portanto, à uma pesquisa cuja construÃÃo teve como matÃria empÃrica privilegiada as situaÃÃes concretas de interaÃÃo, as configuraÃÃes de relaÃÃes de troca, de tensÃo, de conflito, e, igualmente, os momentos de invenÃÃo, de criaÃÃo e de elaboraÃÃo de discursos presentes em uma â alegada â maneira singular de viajar.
Hitchcock, Kelly Alexandra. "Tourism and development : a case study of Mdumbi Backpackers and Transcape non-profit organisation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013143.
Full textHuang, Feng Yi. "A comparative study of international backpackers in Taiwan: travel motivations, behaviour and national cultural influences." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486878.
Full textXie, Jia. "The pursuit of freedom and its risks : the dreams and dilemmas of young Chinese backpackers." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8501/.
Full textLe, Bigot Brenda. "Penser les rapports aux lieux dans les mobilités privilegiées : étude croisée des backpackers en Thaïlande et des hivernants au Maroc." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H018/document.
Full textThis doctoral research analyzes international privileged mobilities crossing two groups in a spatial perspective: backpackers and winter migrants. Mainly driven by leisure, those longtime North-South mobilities, enable to understand the diversity of relationships to places produced by the increasing globalization of lifestyles. Young travellers (backpackers) in Thailand (Bangkok and Ko Phangan) are crossed with retired snow-birds (winter migrants) in Morocco (Agadir). At the intersection of tourism studies and migrations researches, lifestyle migrations analysis question continuities and reconfigurations of social relationships and power games. Passing and appropriation of space reveal the translocal dimension of contemporary lifestyles. This dissertation studies practices of backpackers and snowbirds in everyday territories, metropolitan spaces and transnational networks. Practices and sociability networks underline the complexity of the relationship with Elsewhere and Others. Between Here and There, ambivalent relationships to places question the classic dualities between tourism and home, everyday and extraordinary. Interwoven power games enable those privileged mobile people to build a temporary home Elsewhere. In the end, globalization can be read through those two images of international mobilities. They translocally change the structural reading frame of societies, beyond only individualistic interpretations of contemporary dynamics
Tokalau, Filipo, and n/a. "Assessing the willingness to pay in the context of communal land values : the case of backpackers in Fiji." University of Otago. Department of Tourism, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080513.121054.
Full textRuiz, Jiménez Harold Orlando. "Diagnóstico de la calidad de servicios de hospedaje para turistas tipo backpackers en la ciudad de Chiclayo - 2016." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, 2016. http://tesis.usat.edu.pe/handle/usat/1338.
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Edwards, Russell. "Backpacking in the Digital Age: Ethnographic Perspectives from Latin America." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5729.
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Persson, Martina, and Rashid Yakhyaev. "Autenticitet inom backpacking : En studie som undersöker autenticitet och hedonism inom backpacking." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38687.
Full textThis study explores authenticity and hedonism in backpacking. Postmodernism has led to a homogenization in regards to the destinations that backpackers visit and the activities they perform. Authentic experiences are thus much more difficult to find and discern due to the prevailing mass tourism. This study measures Swedish backpacker's perceptions and behaviors regarding authenticity, using a questionnaire survey that is answered by 203 participants. Data collection is presented in the form of tables and descriptive text that is analyzed using a theoretical framework which includes authenticity, backpacking, hedonism and well-being. The result shows that Swedish backpacker's perceptions and behaviors are most closely linked to existential authenticity and that hedonistic enjoyment is part of the modern backpacker.
Markward, Anne. "Backpackers the next generation? : a thesis submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the degree of Master of Philosophy, 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/435.
Full textCai, Wenjie. "Revisiting the theory and practice of the three-layer system of culture : an exploration of Chinese backpackers' travel experiences in Europe." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2017. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/813352/.
Full textSilva, Igor Monteiro. "O mundo não é tão grande: uma etnografia entre viajantes independentes de longa duração." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/22160.
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Viajantes independentes de longa duração – conhecidos como backpackers, notadamente, pela indústria turística internacional e como mochileiros, no Brasil – podem ser caracterizados, em linhas gerais, em relação à qualidade não-institucionalizada de sua prática (COHEN, 1972). Eles assumem a organização independente de sua viagem, evitando, assim, a compra de pacotes e demais mediações próprias das agências turísticas. Ao configurar independentemente seus deslocamentos, buscam mobilizar valores como autonomia e flexibilidade, o que os permite, por exemplo, trocar itinerários, desfazer planos e extender sua mobilidade por longos períodos. Saber quem, concretamente, são os sujeitos desses deslocamentos, que posições sociais assumem em suas sociedades de origem, compreender por quais motivos desejam experimentar períodos tão alargados em trânsito, como atribuem sentido a essa forma específica de viajar e como vivenciam o retorno a seus países de origem, são algumas das disposições que conformam os objetivos deste trabalho. Mais claramente, a presente tese tem por objetivo apresentar uma etnografia de viagens independentes de longa duração, considerando para tanto o movimento material, bem como as políticas de significado (CRESWELL, 2006), empreendidas por seus sujeitos. Por movimento material deve-se entender os deslocamentos físicos dos viajantes, a maneira crua, como define Creswell (2006), de atingir um ponto partindo de outro. Já no que concerne às políticas de significado, tem-se como horizonte de reflexão tanto as representações partilhadas pelos sujeitos no que se refere às suas jornadas quanto a prática das mesmas, a experiência do movimento sendo incorporada e valorada individualmente. O que apresenta-se aqui, portanto, é uma pesquisa cuja construção teve como matéria empírica privilegiada as situações concretas de interação, as configurações de relações de troca, de tensão, de conflito, e, igualmente, os momentos de invenção, de criação e de elaboração de discursos presentes em uma – alegada – maneira singular de viajar.
Sörensson, Erika. "Making a living in the world of tourism : Livelihoods in backpacker tourism in urban Indonesia." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Social and Economic Geography, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1658.
Full textIn many ‘Third World’ societies tourism is seen as a force for economic development and socie-tal change. Employment in tourism has increased, new destinations have been drawn into tour-ism circuits, and many ‘Third World’ governments have adopted ‘pro-poor’ tourism policies as part of their poverty reduction strategies. However, the tourism sector appears to be particularly volatile and can be subject to dramatic fluctuations, both in terms of volumes and tourists’ des-tination choices, which means that people working in tourism are exposed to globalising forces and preferences far beyond their control.
The aim of this study is to explore the contents and meanings of work within tourism as narrated by formal and informal tourism workers in an urban backpacker enclave in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The study is concerned with the ‘receiving end’ of international tourism, and specifi-cally with the experiences of people who make their livelihoods within the low-budget tourism sector, in which ‘Western’ backpackers are key actors.
In this study the tourism phenomenon is seen from the context of global asymmetrical power relations, but social relations at the local level in Yogyakarta city are given centre stage. The social relations that constitute the Sosrowijayan area as a place are complex. While back-packers come to Sosrowijayan in search of cheap tourism facilities, the general public in Yogya-karta construct the area as the centre of prostitution in the city. However, the inhabitants of Sosrowijayan draw boundaries between people and places in very refined ways.
These boundaries are gendered in the sense that above all female sex workers are blamed for the negative perceptions of the area. They are constructed as ‘outsiders’ because of their ‘deviant’ lifestyle and ‘choice’ of occupation (social class) and because they are said to be migrants from other areas in Indonesia. In Sosrowijayan boundary constructions also take place between male tourism workers who claim allegiance to different groups and categories within their profession or livelihood niche. They make distinctions between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’; the ‘insiders’ are born in the area, while the ‘outsiders’ are narrated as being from other parts of the city, or the country, and/or engage in sexual relations with Western tourists.
The study shows that relations of class, gender, and colonial and/or ‘race’ stereotypes come into play in encounters between tourists and tourist workers. Tourism workers consider themselves to be ‘providers of fun’ which means that they are supposed to meet the needs of the tourists, whatever those needs might be, such as material or sexual. In this relationship the Indonesian tourism workers might be interpreted as the racialised service class that make the backpacker-consumer possible. The study also shows that tourism workers in Sosrowijayan are not only immobile in comparison to the highly mobile backpackers from whom they earn their livelihoods, but also that they are at the receiving end of a type of mobility which is initiated and performed far beyond their control.
Coronado, Medina Consuelo Esther, Ramírez Miguel Ángel Freyre, Trujillo Juan Carlos Sergio Gamarra, Peña Mariela Lisbeth Vásquez, and Garcia Dayana Stefany Zelayaran. "Backpacks HARK’AY." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/654844.
Full textCurrently, everyone is experiencing a health emergency as a result of Covid-19 and in Peru due to this disease shows a change in habits to move to their work centers, go to the supermarket, go for a walk, etc. For this reason, this business plan analyzes the viability of the HARK'AY business project, which consists of providing an outlet for those people who show a great interest in mobilizing by bicycle. This project arises from the personal experience of our family environment when hearing the constant complaints and little comfort that they had when transporting their bicycles. For this reason, we designed a bicycle accessory that alleviates the frustrations of the cyclists of metropolitan Lima when traveling around the city. On the other hand, with the advancement of technology we want to offer an added value to our produc, solar panels, which will be adapted to a backpack so that through solar energy they can charge all kinds of electronic items such as laptops, cell phones, batteries external, etc. which will be a great opportunity for those who want to acquire more than a product that meets their needs, it will also allow them to contribute to the environment through technology. To start our company, we will have 5 workers and the area was chosen as the center of operations will be in the Callao district. In addition, the objective is to recover the initial investment of S /. 42,455.00 soles, the first year and to expand our business proposal to the provinces in two years.
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Talbott, Nancy R. "The Effect of the Weight, Location and Type of Backpack on Posture and Postural Stability of Children." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115391000.
Full textWallstam, Martin. "Backpacker Institutionalization : Towards an Experience-Based Typology." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-14631.
Full textSenger, Edwin. "Land Rover BackPacker : A minimal travel vehicle." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161149.
Full textShan, Huang Chia, and 黃家珊. "Photography、Backpackers、Kyoto-The Representation of Taiwanese Backpackers in Kyoto." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78045887448631087739.
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Pictures can reproduce the image of a place to create people’s imaginations and desires for exotic locations and therefore capture their interests in travelling. According to Hall(1997), a specific landscape attracts visitors because of its pictures taken again and again. The more visitors come, the more pictures are taken. Those pictures would attract even more visitors. The landscape has consolidated its position. The pictures of the landscape has become a constant circle of representation, which has a huge influence on travelling. Backpackers are special travellers. They are dependant, and free from restricted schedules. Is the photography of backpackers affected by the circle of representation? Or perhaps we can find more characteristics of representation? This study is based on the backpackers from Taiwan, who travelled Kyoto, to examine the characteristics of representation and traveling. The research started on the analysis of the travel guides. In the first place, I found the most representative icons and landscapes. Next, I interviewed the backpackers from Taiwan, who traveled Kyoto, to find the characteristics of representation and travelling from the interviews and the photos they offered. “Disposable Camera Supply” is adopted to make up for the possible lack of resources. That is, the backpackers who was travelling Kyoto was provided with disposable cameras to take more pictures during their journeys. According to studies, Kiyomizu-dera and Kinkaku-ji are the most representative icons and are reproduced most often in travel guides; Japanese gardens, cherry blossom in spring, and autumn leaves on deciduous trees are the most representative landscapes. Through analyzing the pictures offered by the backpackers, I find out that most backpackers took pictures of Kinkaku-ji, Kiyomizu-dera, and Japanese gardens. In contrast, only a few backpackers took pictures of cherry blossom and Maple leaves because they didn’t visit Japan in spring or fall. “Season” is the main cause that affects the circle of representation. But if we put that aside, the reproduction of backpackers are obviously affected by the circle of representation. Besides the circle of representation, the characteristics of reproduction of backpackers include reproduction of exotic views, similarities and differences, curious seeing, narrative selfing through photography, recording, memories, desire creating, etc. The characteristics of travelling of backpackers have multiple values, and the backpackers view the Internet as the extension of travelling space, etc. The characteristics of reproduction and travelling of backpackers are diverse. Although backpackers are the same as normal visitors in some ways, still they show some styles and ingenuity which exclusively belong to them. Key words:Backpacker、Representation、Photography.
Bell, Susan. "Dean Court: Backpackers in London." Thesis, 2006. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/427/.
Full textBell, Susan. "Dean Court - Backpackers in London." 2006. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/427/1/Bell.pdf.
Full textDeakin, Jessica. "Finding Herself: Examining Identity Formation in Female Canadian Backpackers." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3122.
Full textBrito, Bruno. "A influência dos géneros nos backpackers portugueses." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/35567.
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Jian, Yi-Fen, and 簡翊芬. "Conceptualization and Measurement of Backpackers’ Exploratory Curiosity." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05279753131495144517.
Full text國立屏東科技大學
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Recently, researchers called the type of non-institutionalized travel as backpacker. In addition, curiosity had been regarded as a key intrinsic motivational drive for facilitating human exploratory behaviors in many domains, such as psychology, education, and sport. According to a literature review and in-depth interview, the purposes of this study were to define the construct of backpackers’ exploratory curiosity questionnaire, to conceptualize its role in the destination choice process, and to develop an instrument to measure backpackers’ exploratory curiosity. The questionnaire divided into three steps of the development process and tested reliability and validity by different samples. A rigorous instrument development process resulted in a reliable and valid scale with four factors (excitement, destinations, social contact, and tourism events) and a total of 18 items. Implications of findings for practical applications and suggestions for future research are also provided.
SUNG, PO-CHING, and 宋柏慶. "Intention of Backpackers Using Travel Experience Platform." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98wqgp.
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In recent years, people's willing to travel has increased. Especially in the heat of self-guided trips, the demand of people for self-guided trips has been increasing. The rise of travel experience platform has been created. It has become a challenge for the platform merchants to provide a convenient and innovative travel tour. Therefore, this study explores the factors that affect the use of travel experience platform for Backpacker. In this study, the Backpacker as the research object, and using the technology acceptance model (Technology Acceptance Model, TAM) as the theoretical model, product innovation, service convenience and information security such as influence factors to construct the basic frame of this study. Through Internet questionnaire survey, the subjects were those who had Backpacker experience. The number of samples was 300, and the impact of Backpacker's experience on travel experience platform was discussed from an empirical perspective.
Teng, Ning, and 鄧寧. "The World of Backpack─Backpackers’ Multiple Life Image." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15403245549227420371.
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新聞研究所
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The Tourism, leisure activities and travel as social phenomenon are actually more important beyond people’s daily understanding. Comparing with western countries, the trend of Independent Travel has sprouted and grown after the end of the martial law in 1987 in Taiwan. Moreover, the term, “backpacker” becomes trendy in Taiwan after 2004. This in-depth report thesis is aimed to depict the diverse independent travelers’ practice as a backpackers’ group image, including non-famous backpackers, travel bloggers, travel writers and journalists. In the meantime, this report tries to dig out the meaning of backpackers’ practice, drawing the unique world of backpackers for the readers. The so-called backpackers always travel with the limited budgets, so they have their own perspectives about how to organize, proceed with the tour and how to interpret their own sightseeing places to practice their tourist gaze as John Urry demonstrates. This report illustrates that those backpackers could not only change their values from their background, but also learn or intimate the local lifestlyes and social values. Nevertheless, they would choose the special tourist places or set up the unusual travel targets and purposes to fulfill their own life experiences. In the report, because the recent backpackers have more diverse purposes to practice backpacking tour, somehow it causes the touristic foaming of backpacking. Take the case of “Khao San Road” in Thailand as example, the backpackers, who are proud of exploring the authentic local culture; on the contrary, gather in Khao San Road, an artificial, unauthentic area that is constructed for tourists. In the end, this in-depth report revealed that when backpackers return, they tend to share their various experiences and exotic impressions with others. However, that how the backpackers describe their travel resumes, including the choices of travel places and the explanation of travel experiences, is actually trying to distinguish and label their own tastes and uniqueness. This report also found that some people would choose to be backpackers with their special life steps. After the turning points of life stage, some of them might not use the way of backpacking to practice their travel plan, but they would still keep the backpacking spirit, in terms of the life-long travelers with independent and unique perspectives and attitudes.
Huang, Pin-Chi, and 黃品齊. "The Development of Transformative Learning Scale for Backpackers." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15073659630698421932.
Full text國立臺灣師範大學
體育學系
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The purpose of this study was to construct and develop Transformative Learning Scale for Backpackers (TLSB). There were four phases of this study. First phase was to develop a preliminary scale based on literature review and related scales. In the second phase, exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha were utilized to examine the factor validity and reliability. The third phase consisted of comfirmatory factor analysis and criterion related validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, composite reliability, and average variance extracted were also included. The final phase was the examination of the relationships among motivations, transformative learning experiences, and personal development. The results were as follows: 1. The TLSB included 14 questions under 4 factors which were” behavioral”, “psychological”, “convictional”, and “social perception”. In addition, it showed the scale has good reliability and validity. 2. Backpackers’ transformative learning experience was affected by “gender”, “nationality”, “education level”, and “the backpacker experience to other continents”. 3. Motivation was an important factor to affect backpackers’ transformative learning experiences and personal development. 4. There was a positive relation between backpackers’ transformative learning experiences and personal development. The reliability and validity of the TLSB has be confirmed and can be used for further investigation.
Yang, Jing-Fang, and 楊錦芳. "An Exploration of International Backpackers' Behavioral Intention in Taiwan." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13168851380077334957.
Full text東海大學
餐旅管理學系
104
Based on contemporary trends, favoring individual choice in a wide variety of directions, personally designed travel has become a popular choice (Chesshyre,2002; Pryor,2001; Scutte,1997).In particular, backpacking is more and more popular and reflects general trends towards self-directed travel. Hostelries must respond to these trends, and reflect global, economic, and social realities (Thyne, Davis, and Nash 2004).Backpackers are especially adept at utilizing multiple platforms to find accommodations, so hostelries must find ways to attract and retain their customer base. This study based on the research of Firth and Hing (1999); Nash,Thyne and Davies(2006), travelers’ choice of accommodations is increasingly based on price, location, facilities, and ecological factors. Accordingly, consumers nowadays are concerned not only with physical space, but with atmosphere and design, which attract not only initial interest (Chen,Bao and Huang,2014) but also repurchase consumption (Kolter,1973) .The current research was conducted in September and October 2015 in the vicinity of Taichung Airport. 356 questionnaires were distributed, of which 342 were returned, for a response rate of 96.16%.Among this group, 193 international backpackers were surveyed. Through factor analysis, it was determined that social interaction and price had the most significant positive effects on consumer behaviors. Moreover, it was found that backpackers do not necessarily choose accommodations solely on the basis of price considerations. The results of this research will be useful to Taiwan’s hotel industry as well as the further study of backpackers’ purchasing behavior.
Lu, Chih-Hsiang, and 盧之翔. "A Study of Backpackers’ Travel Experience Model in Taiwan." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52097479798653039638.
Full text中國文化大學
觀光事業研究所
96
Backpacker is a newly developing market in Taiwan. It is important to realize the target consumer before asking for positive benefit from this market. When the economic development steps into experience economy, its emphasis is upon consumer experience. Experience is part of individual’s inward, and will be transformed into memory which engages in the future decision. The travel experience of backpackers has been paid at-tention increasingly. Tain-Cole and Scott (2004)indicate tourism experience is sequential nature, performance quality leads to experience quality, experience quality effect on overall satisfaction, overall satisfaction influence on behavioral intentions. Most of backpakcers tend to seek experience, and call themselves “experience seeker”. Therefore, this study adopt on Tain-Cole and Scott’s tourism experience model, according to the characteristics of backpacker, this research try to replace performance quality and overall satisfaction by experience seeking and memorability. This study is proposed a travel experience model of backpackers. This study consisted of 20 in-depth interviews with backpackers traveling in Tai-wan, and developed experience seeking, experience quality, memorability and beha-vioral intentions questionnaire by categorized. Data were taken from Taipei YH and Taoyuan international airport, Completed questionnaires were returned by 252 back-packers (100% response rate). Those variables were analyzed by reliability, validity and CFA, all of variables were significantly. Finally, the results developed that backpackers’ travel experience model. This model is accumulate and sequential process, backpackers interaction with Taiwan’s en-vironment, culture and society, solicit their experience seeking. Backpackers active ob-serve or participate event that induce their response and become experience quality. Experience quality will be transformed into memorability which influence on behavior intentions.
LIN, MEI-YU, and 林美妤. "Service Experience Provided by Taiwanese Online Travel Agenciesfor Backpackers." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/uhjvp4.
Full text世新大學
觀光學研究所(含碩專班)
106
Changes in the times and changes in lifestyle, travel has become part of modern life and leisure, but also due to the development of the Internet, so you want to collect travel information on the network is not a difficult thing, thus contributing to many people Start thinking of backpack travel, and backpackers are the most commonly used online travel site, including booking air tickets, booking hotels, booking tickets, searching travel tips, almost all by different functions of the online travel site reached. But for backpackers are the service functions currently provided by Taiwan's backpackers on line with the expectations of backpackers? This study is mainly aimed of active online travel agancy staff, but also had a backpack experience for the study, and for the backpackers before and after the trip provided by the network service functions, collect the material by way of the in-depth interviews as the basis for the analysis and discussion in this research, hoping to provide the backpackers's needs to the online travel agency as a reference for improvement and reference.There are four conclusions: 1、Due to availability of online travel information, backpacking will be the future trend. 2、The use of sharing economy to reduce travel costs has been gradually accepted. 3、Demand for local tour will have more demand due to the increase of backpackers. 4、Cultural experience tour will be one of the tourist destinations.
Su, Wei-li, and 蘇維莉. "A Study of Self-Actualizational Experience of Non-Institutional Backpackers." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95225604154424771337.
Full text逢甲大學
景觀與遊憩研究所
95
This study explores the self-actualizational experience of contemporary travelers who are engaged in non-institutional backpacking in terms of social contexts and individual perspectives. Having conducting eight “in-depth interviews” of non-institutional backpackers and ”content analyses” of fifteen traveling books and two reports of magazines, my study points out that the desires motivating non-institutional backpackers include wondering about the world, chasing after novelty and excitement, and escaping the fetters of living and dialoging with self. Furthermore, the meanings of travel for non-institutional backpackers are testing for information, feeling the conditions and atmosphere and expecting circumstance of traveling. Finally, when back from the journey, the non-institutional backpackers come up with their own definitions of traveling and reflex on themselves. I conclude my study by the followings: 1) Non-institutional backpacking offers travelers alternative travelling experiences that contribute to their self-development. 2) Non-institutional backpacking is not only a type of lifestyle for travelers, but also a powerful means for their self- actualization.
Chiang, Cheng-Che, and 蔣政哲. "Research on the Travel Experience of Domestic Backpackers Using APPs." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02346285911138078716.
Full text康寧大學
休閒管理研究所
102
Travel and tourism have become important economic activities in the world. Due to the rapid development of technology and the improvement of living standard, more and more backpacking trips are taken in Taiwan. Through literature review and interviewing experts, the study summarized five dimensions (function, hedonic, innovation, aesthetics, and sign)of travel experience and 15 criteria. This study adopted questionnaire survey method. 15 domestic backpackers using APPs were surveyed. The DEMATEL was used to analyze the key factor among the dimensions and criteria. The results were summarized as follows: I. The effects among the dimensions of travel experience of domestic backpackers: The dimension of function was the most influential dimension for travel experience. The dimension of the hedonic was the most influenced dimension. II. The effects among the criteria of the dimensions: 1.The dimension of function: "Knowledge" and "Utility" were the most influential, and "Uncertainty" was the most influenced. 2.The dimension of hedonic :"Sense" and "Experience" were the most influential, and "Emotion" was the most influenced. 3.The dimension of innovation:"Creativity" was the most influential, and "Novelty" and "Diversity" were the most influenced. 4.The dimension of aesthetics:"Image" was the most influential, and "Imagination" was the most influenced. 5.The dimension of sign:"Symbol" was the most influential, and "Sociability" was the most influenced. Therefore, if the dimension of function and the criteria of Knowledge, Utility, Sense, Experience, Creation, Image and Symbol are improved, it will be helpful to expand the travel experience of domestic backpackers using APPs.
Yeh, Chih-Ling, and 葉芝伶. "The Study of Oversea Backpackers' Travel Experiences with Travel Companions." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66779478648519769522.
Full text南華大學
旅遊管理學系旅遊管理碩士班
103
The pupose of the study is to understand oversea backpackers’ travel experience with travel companions. Qualitative research was applied to explore the interaction process with travl compaions before, during, and after the trip. First, the study collected interview records from seven experienced oversea backpackers by applying case study research and semi structured interview. The study also collected materials by using pictures and literature. The next section of the study is to form a list of key words and their frequency. In addition, we appied the Interpretive Structural Model (ISM) to explore the network among the keywords to realize the relationships among the backpackers’ thoughts.This study aims to apply qualitative and quantitative analysis to explore the backpackers’ most influential factors.
Chang, Yu-Ju, and 張聿如. "A Study of Travel Risk Perception and Related Tendency in Backpackers." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45758925738550223702.
Full text國立台北護理學院
旅遊健康研究所
95
There are a group of unique tourists enjoying “backpacking” trip, named as the backpacker currently. The purpose of this study possessed several fold: (a).to investigate the background and self-value of backpackers;(b).to investigate the backpacker’s perception on the travel risks and the related handling;(c).to investigate the backpacker’s tendency to skip the travel risk;(d).to understand the relationship among backpacker’s background, the situation of itinerary organizing and personal tendency. In this study, we carried it out under the mainly qualitative and descriptive research method with in-depth interview approach to explore the risk perception for backpacker and to spare the dangerous situation during the journey. Totally there were eight subjects who agree to take part in this study. The results revealed that there were multi-dimensional for related risk perception, i.e. “self-protection mechanism”, “problem-solving ability”, “other’s influence”, “self-assure”, “experience accumulation”. Under these risk perception, they generated some unique travel considerations and experiences with coping, that could be divided into “well prepared for self ascertaining”, “the statement for easy-going”, “to enjoy surprising”. Finally, travel tendency could generate some special phenomenon, including “freedom”, “to try and adventure directly”, “executive competency” and “self-challenge”. Conclusively, most interviewees had set up a travel risk protection mechanism based on different situations. Through this study, we expect “backpacker” could enjoy their liberal traveling safely and provide more useful & practical information for those who might join the line of the backpackers.
Tung, YuYun, and 董玉芸. "The Consumer Behavior of Island Backpackers – A Case Study in Kinmen." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22384126135936327991.
Full text國立金門大學
觀光管理學系
100
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors considered by the individual travelers to Kinmen when they plan a trip and the influence of the factors on decision making of consumers. The questionnaires are used as the main method in survey. Among the individual travelers who had been to Kinmen, 610 subjects are selected and surveyed with questionnaire; 596 subjects response the questionnaire; 563 effective questionnaires are achieved (the effective response rate is 94%). The questions asked in the questionnaire are measured by several author-modified indexes, including motivation/demand, information search, destination image and travel behavior. These data are then analyzed by SPSS software for statistic, such as descriptive statistics, reliability test, factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation and regression. The results show that 1) the travel motivation is mainly for relaxation, 2) the information search is inclined to refer to the exterior sources, 3) the destination image is safety, leisure and relaxation, 4) positive behavior and perception are shown after travel, 5) tourists with higher travel motivation tend to search travel information from exterior sources, 6) the importance of and identification with destination image is positively correlated to the magnitude of and direction of information search respectively, 7) travel motivation is positively correlated to travel destination, 8) travel motivation, information search and destination image significantly influence travel decision making, 9) the higher travel motivation, the higher positive after-travel behavior, 10) the more information search, the more positive after-travel behavior, 11) destination image influences after-travel behavior, 12) the consumer behaviors and decision making are varied by the population characteristics of sampled subjects. The author then provides some suggestions based on the research results and findings that 1) on differentiation of tourism market, maintain the current advantageous niche market and create memorable experiences in terms of highlighting locality, 2) on provision of travel information, upgrade service quality for word-of-mouth communication, utilize internet media as a channel and impress the tourists with mass media promotion, 3) on the formation of destination image, develop diversified and night events, improve the capacity and quality of transportation, and ameliorate the quality of accommodation and shopping environment, 4) on administrative organizations, provide professional trainings for tourism, combine BOT projects with locality, utilize CDP to help tourists make travel decision, and finally consider the specialty of islands and upon that make policy planning.
Chen, Mei-Yu, and 陳玫瑜. "Explore backpackers’ motivation, satisfaction, resistance and future intentions towards couch-surfing." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35640694281594696271.
Full text康寧大學
休閒資源暨綠色產業研究所
100
Couch-surfing (Couch Surfing, CS) is a type of mutual tourism emerged during recent years. The correlation between backpackers and couch-surfing is very interesting and worthwhile for us to take a closer look. This study was researched using literature analysis, expert interviews, and online questionnaires. Based on willingness to participate in couch- surfing, the questionnaire is classified into three categories: "Category A – Couch-surfers", "Category B – Willing to couch-surf, but has no prior experience "Category C – Unwilling to couch-surf" to explore backpackers’s motivation, satisfaction, resistance and future intentions towards couch-surfing. Use descriptive statistics, single factor analysis of variance, independent samples T-test, cross-analysis, chi-square distribution, and Pearson correlation statistical analysis. Results are as follows: 1. Significant differences in backpackers’ background for the three categories. 2. Motivation levels are significantly different for the three categories. 3. Category A and category B are significantly different in future intentions. 4. Category B and category C is significant different in resistance. 5. Significant relationship between travel motivation, satisfaction and future intentions. 6. No siginificant relationship between travel motivation, resistance, and future intentions. Results of this study can provide research references for tourism-related agencies, backpackers, tourism research units and experts.
Chung, Yu-Tung, and 鍾育東. "Mandarin Text Mining in Tourism: A Case Study of Backpackers Forum." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36qy8k.
Full text國立中央大學
資訊管理學系
107
With the rapid growth of the Internet, the world wide web has become the most important source of our daily information. Social media and online forums have enabled online users to express their opinions, which is called "User-Generated Content". These user-generated contents are more likely to gain trust from other users and everyone can write their own posts. On the other hand, tourism has always been one of the most info-heavy tasks. From collecting the scenery spot, planning the transportation, to the food or anything else, all of these rely on a thorough study to arrange a wonderful trip. But nowadays online information about tourist attraction is more route-oriented and lack of overall recommendation or probe into the difference between the two countries in a specific region. Thus, this research utilizes the posts on the famous Taiwanese tourist website "Backpackers Forum", comparing the difference of most interesting topic/words in different forum section/geographic area, in expectation to find the unique characteristics of the areas and serve as an insight for travel agency. To do so, this research uses Python to write a web crawler to crawl and store the posts on different sections of the forum, and use TF-IDF to calculate the most frequent words/topics and compared with other section to find the different patterns. The research has the finding as below. First, regardless of the geographical hierarchy, the most common topics are tourist spot of the region, transportation, lodging, and budget & visa. Second, we can observe the relationship between two locations, and the relation is uni-direction. Third, the research use association rules analysis to visualize the relationship between the words, giving a better understanding of the connection of the topics.
Chiao, Chia-Hung, and 焦佳弘. "From backpackers to waged labors: Experiences of Taiwanese in Australian Working Holiday." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5jx2vg.
Full textNguyen, Minh Huan, and 阮明勳. "A Study on the Destination Choice Factors of International Backpackers in Vietnam." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06773249830474649000.
Full text中國文化大學
觀光事業學系
102
International tourism in the current globalization trends is inevitable and objective for all countries in all era, whether developed or developing. Today, international tourism organizations are increasing. They occupy a large proportion of the national income of many countries around the world. Tourism is a key to bring prosperity to both rich and poor countries, which account for 40% of global trade services (UNWTO, 2012). Vietnam Government has implemented many methods to attract international backpackers. A successful business is a business that has the capability to select and offer the right services or products to customers. Understanding about the customers and then selling the right products or services to right customers are the important processes of a business. This paper will mainly explore the major factors that may influence the choice of destination in Vietnam for international backpackers based on three respects: travel motivation, socio-demographic attributes, and tourists’ image of Vietnam. This study is based on both theoretical and empirical. The theory that used in this study is a set of concepts and definitions about tourism destination, destination image, tourism destination marketing and customer behavior in the travel sector.