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Youth Travel and Backpacking - InternationalPublished by: Mintel International Group Ltd. Published: Dec. 1, 2003 - 37 Pages Table of ContentsIntroduction Background and Definitions Data sources and reliability The Scale and Dimensions of the Backpacking Phenomenon Youth traveller profiles Destinations Trip characteristics Figure 2: Duration of trip Figure 3: Sources of information prior to departure Figure 4: Booking channel by product Motivations and activities Figure 5: Outbound youth travel in 2000 by holiday type Figure 6: Motivations to visit the destination on last main trip Expenditures and economic contribution Figure 7: Travel expenditures Youth Tourism and the Travel Trade Figure 9: Type of accommodation Figure 10: Bus packages purchased in Australia by foreign backpackers Case Studies Backpacker Enclaves in Thailand Working Holidays in Australia Hostels in Europe The Future of Youth and Backpacker Tourism Index to Travel & Tourism Analyst Index grouped by geographic area Index to TTI Destination Reports 1993-2003 Country reports: AbstractBased on WTO estimates youth travel now accounts for between 20% and 25% of all international tourist trips. The market is growing, though with falling birth rates in much of the developed world, this is not as a result of demographic change. Growth has been prompted by increased participation levels in tertiary education, labour mobility and overseas study programmes, the emergence of backpacking as an element of global youth culture and changing concepts of youthfulness. The blurring of distinctions between work, study and travel are leading to a hybridisation of youth travel motives. The cultural aspects of youth travel and backpacking including the desire to mix with other like-minded people is an aspect that merits particular attention by destinations interested in this market.
Over recent decades the youth tourism market has been a major growth segment within international tourism. According to World Tourism Organisation (WTO) estimates, the proportion of all international tourism trips undertaken by young travellers grew from 14.6% in 1980 to 20% in 2001 and the share is forecast to reach 25% by 2005. Market growth has been accompanied by increasing professionalisation of the various organisations which offer products and services to youth travellers and by the emergence of specific market sub-sectors such as backpackers. Governments have shown an increasing interest in youth tourism prompting a more favourable environment for growth. This report reviews recent developments in the youth tourism and backpacking markets, based on recent statistical data and industry reports |
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