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Backpackers’ Tourism and Health: A Narrative Literature Review

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  • Sebastien Fleuret

    (ESO-University of Angers, 49100 Angers, France)

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Backpackers are an unusual category of travellers. Their unique mobility patterns, spatial practices, and the areas they travel through expose them to health situations that remain largely unexplored to date. This article conducts a narrative literature review (across six different databases in English and French) in this domain and highlights key contributions. The results show that backpackers frequently experience health problems during their trips. They are described as being more at risk than other tourists and more inclined to adopt harmful behaviours. However, the majority of related studies lack contextualisation, which is an advantage of geographical analysis. Moreover, given the limited volume of the existing literature, this review serves as an invitation to geographers to delve deeper into this intriguing field.

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  • Sebastien Fleuret, 2024. "Backpackers’ Tourism and Health: A Narrative Literature Review," Geographies, MDPI, vol. 4(1), pages 1-12, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jgeogr:v:4:y:2024:i:1:p:3-51:d:1315767
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    1. Jeff Wilks & Donna Pendergast & Peter A. Leggat & Damian Morgan, 2021. "Issues in Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing," Springer Books, in: Jeff Wilks & Donna Pendergast & Peter A. Leggat & Damian Morgan (ed.), Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal, pages 1-22, Springer.
    2. Gemma Crawford & Roanna Lobo & Graham Brown & Chloe Macri & Hannah Smith & Bruce Maycock, 2016. "HIV, Other Blood-Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections amongst Expatriates and Travellers to Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-22, December.
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