The ATLAS Backpacker Research Group are organising a conference on backpacker tourism from 26-28th March 2008. It will be held at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla in India and are now calling for papers on the following themes:
- The rituals of preparation for backpacker travel
- Relationships between work and leisure
- Issues of gender, race, ethnicity and class
- Issues of food and drink
- Emotional geographies
- Sub-cultural fashions in backpacking
- community contact and host-guest relationships
- Policy and planning dilemmas
- The return home and the influence on traveller's life course
- Change of backpacker phenomenon over time
- Alternative methodologies
