If you look at my profile you can see I'm a tourism academic at a British university. Basically I'm researching & writing a book on backpacker tourism & its effect on the less developed world. This comes out of my own experiences as a backpacker myself mostly around South-East Asia since the, erm, 1990s (well, actually before that in the mid 1980s to India...) Anyhow, the process of researching, then writing the book will take a couple of years & I hope to use this blog to open up some topics with other travellers out there & anyone else interested.
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