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Abstract Taiwan, on Pacific Ocean in mainland China edge islands area, in north and south Asia's central position and Penghu is located on the southwest side channel of the Taiwan main island. The sea water limpid, the geology special, the sand beach extends, the coastline is long, the natural rich resources adds on the near millennium the humanity lives the history, is the best place to develop tourism and traveling. Penghu goes tourism promotes for nearly 30 years. According to the basis officially data, people who visit or travels around Penghu in 2004 is more than 500 thousand. In recent years, times changed and our personal income increase; therefore, there are more and more Taiwanese people like to spend their weekend to travel around Taiwan. People like to spend more time with family, or maybe self-service traveler. Penghu is a good place for self-service traveler, especially for Taiwanese people and there are many chances for Penghu to develop this industry. Penghu also had the development space in the self-service travel population aspect, especially domestic self-service travel population. According to some data, the self traveler who comes into Penghu is more than the groups to visit here; therefore, has the necessity thoroughly to study its destination choice behavior, why analyzes its decision-making process? What is the travel motive? What is the destination attribute? All the researches could take as reference as the correlation need. This research by the quantification primarily, and the ideas of the questions are based on Boyd (1991) and some person¡¦s criterion designed. It focuses on the self-service traveler who is coming in to Penghu. We¡¦ll give them the survey in the Hotel, car rental shop, or information center. The main material analysis method has the number of times to assign, the simple percentage, the single factor variation number analysis, the factor analysis, the secondary material analysis. The results of self-service traveler are: 7. Sex: Feamle 8. Age: 20~29 9. Education: University or above 10. Occupation: Office Lady 11. Marriage: No marriage 12. Income per month: $40,000 ~ $59,999 It¡¦s about 81.78% people who are the first time to travel to Penghu which is very high. Their first consideration is the impression of Penghu. Most of them will do some research before they come to Penghu. The resource is mainly from the travel books or magazines, the television, the radio commercial and the internet. Those self-service travelers has different characteristic: Has by the occupation to the travel season reveals the difference. The traveller attribute to the travel motive, has to the interesting business and the elimination pressure two aspects reveals the difference obtained, the education level height, to the rest charge, the occupation, the marriage, also to is enjoying satisfied, the rest charge, looked the interesting business also has reveals the difference. But the traveller attribute not reveals the difference to the destination attribute. Respectively is "the pleasure" and "relaxes" by the factor analytic method extract two travel motives, a destination attribute factor, the naming is "the sum total factor", basically is worthy of looking at is pure to self-service travel factor the Penghu, does is the travel destination, to Penghu by leisure primarily. The secondary material analysis shows the similar result as the survey we done, such as the traveler¡¦s characteristic and motivation. However, it is very different between travel around overseas and Penghu. Penghu needs to develop more traveling flavor and facilities to attract more domestic and international traveler then become an international scenic site.

Studien ämnar undersöka huruvida backpackers på Khao San Raod i Bangkok, Thailand, etablerar nya kontakter med andra medresenärer. Syftet är att utifrån begreppet socialt kapital undersöka varför relationer initieras samt varför vissa relationer bibehålls men inte andra efter avslutad resa. Då samhället består av kluster som bildar nätverk utgör varje kontakt en resurs. Hypotesen är således att kontakter etableras eftersom de kan ge tillgång till resurser individen annars inte kommer åt. Uppsatsen har huvudsakligen en kvalitativ, teoriprövande design även om inslag från andra ansatser förekommer. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer har ansetts fördelaktiga som datainsamlingsmetod då deltagarnas egna tillskrivna mening ligger i fokus enligt kvalitativ tradition. Det empiriska materialet ackumulerades i två etapper varav den första på Khao San Road och den andra via e-post två månader efter respektive intervjupersons hemresa. Resultatet visar att kontaktuppgifter utbyts med 30% av alla nya bekantskaper men endast en tredjedel av de etablerade kontakterna förväntas vara fortsatt regelbundna efter hemresa. Det föreslås att relationer etableras på grund av deras positionella tillgångar men mattas av när dessa inte längre anses eftertraktade. Personliga tillgångar visar sig mer beständiga varför relationer med exempelvis emotionellt utbyte, såsom vänskap, har större sannolikhet att bestå över tid. Internetbaserade nätverkstjänster som Facebook underlättar möjligheten att bibehålla kontakter och en klar majoritet av intervjupersonerna menar att de skulle återuppta kontakt med gamla bekantskaper om det uppkom ett syfte. Detta bekräftar teorin om socialt kapital och dess betydelse för etablering av kontakter.

This study explores the diverse identities within the backpacking phenomenon - educational, traditional, and flashpacker - tracing their historical roots and motivations. The significance of understanding these identities lies in their economic impact on the tourism sector. A gap in research is identified regarding the detailed exploration of backpacker identities in contemporary society. The research aims to map and comprehend these identities, considering their preferences and contributions to the tourism economy. The study employs a quantitative approach and a netnographic research design to uncover the fluid nature of backpacker categories. The main purpose of the study underscores the need to enhance our overall understanding of the backpacking phenomenon, to then be able to customise destination strategies based on the diverse preferences of various backpacker groups.

<p> </p><p>The thesis discusses the backpacking culture in Ecuador. It proposes a clarification of the issue and discusses the problem from two perspectives. Questions are raised about the backpacking identity, the backpacking travel style and how they use given facilities in the host country. The work focuses and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the destination through the lens of a backpacker. The empirical material is taken from intensive interviews conducted in Ecuador.</p><p>A discussion reviews the backpacking identity, how and why backpackers travel; and the backpacker’s opinion about sustainable tourism in South America. In addition, the thesis concentrates on the travellers’ finances and how they prepare for an extended journey.</p><p> </p>

¡§Internet¡¨ not only change our life, also increase a source for information searching before we make decision. However, the quantity of information provided from internet surpass the capability of human. The purposes of the study were to discuss how consumers search information in internet, and how consumer information search behavior be different because of internet. Among all industry in Taiwan, tourism is the best industry in applying e-commence. Further, 95 percent people in Taiwan are backpackers, so backpacker is a trend of people traveling in Taiwan. As a result, the study choose backpacker as subject to observe consumer information search behavior in internet. The study follows Schmidt & Spreng¡¦s model which indicate that perceived risk, perceived benefit, and search ability are variables of information search behavior. Besides, personal character is also a variable of internet information search behavior. According to an on-lined survey at 2003 with 1931 valid samples, 4 factors of internet perceived benefits were extracted. They were ¡§entertainment¡¨, ¡§ease of use¡¨, ¡§efficiency of using information¡¨, and ¡§useful¡¨. The factors of internet perceived risk were ¡¨credibility and significance¡¨, ¡§security¡¨, and ¡§time¡¨. The factors of backpack perceived benefits were ¡§cheerful¡¨, ¡§innovational¡¨, ¡§functional¡¨, ¡§economic¡¨ and ¡§signal¡¨. The factors of backpack perceived risk were ¡§money loss¡¨, ¡§bad route of travel¡¨, ¡§damage to friendship¡¨, ¡§heavy duty¡¨ and ¡§not economic¡¨. Many clusters were formed and they are significant different in information search behavior in internet according to chi-square test. The study result also shows that different personal character has different information search behavior in internet; Both ¡§the composition of travel party¡¨ and ¡§backpacker¡¦s travel ability and experience¡¨ have influence on backpacker¡¦s perception of travel; ¡§the experience and ability of using internet¡¨ and ¡§internet perceived benefit¡¨ are direct proposition, on the contrary, the experience and ability of using internet¡¨ and ¡§internet perceived benefit¡¨ are inverse proposition; most of backpackers are good educated and have good income; the purpose of backpacker is mainly to get flexible route of travel, and the economic factor is the last important of all.

In this thesis we have examined in which way the long term travel can be seen as an obligation among young adults. The survey is made through semi structured interviews with 52 young adults that have completed a long term travel. The responses that we received during the interviews helped us categorize six different ways. The different ways are discussed in the thesis and are summed up in the conclusion. There are many things that affect people and we have discussed the ways that the generation of our respondents experience in their life. The overall focus was the generation that our respondents exist in. The interviews were a way to grasp what we questioned. By connecting our empirical data from the interviews with theoretical framework and analyzed the different ways that creates an obligation, we have come to a conclusion.

<p>Resande har blivit en stor del av vårt samhälle och livsstilen för många unga människor idag. Min studie är ett försök att belysa vad som får oss att söka vår identitet i kulturer långt från våra egna, och hur dessa kulturer uttrycker sig själva. Hösten 2001 gick Sverige med i ett arrangemang som runt tio länder har med Australien, nämligen working/holiday-visumet. Detta och en rad andra aspekter har ökat resandet till denna del av världen. Den antropologiska metoden av fältobservationer och intervjuer med resenärer inbjuder till kunskap om hur denna arena av backpckers ser sig själva och vad som skapar denna kultur från ett inifrån-perspektiv.</p>

<p>Det 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.</p>

Det 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.