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AbstractSoutheast Asia has the world's oldest and largest backpacker trails. This paper examines the geographies of such flows, drawing upon the largest survey to date of backpackers in Asia using qualitative research to survey the key changes from the 1970s to the 2000s. Backpacker trails have changed significantly and new routes have emerged including the "northern trail" (Bangkok–Cambodia–Vietnam–Laos). It is to be expected that routes change as backpackers constantly seek new places, pioneering for later mass tourism. However, this paper suggests that using institutionalization as a framework, these changing trails and backpacker "choices" can be seen as driven by growing commercialization and institutionalization. This then operates in combination with external variables (travel innovations—low cost airlines, and new transport networks); exogenous shock (political instability, terrorism); and growing regional competition from emerging destinations such as Vietnam and Cambodia.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Conceptualizing Responsible Rural Tourism in Asia -- 2 Responsible Rural Tourism in Bhutan: Aligning Gross National Happiness with the Cape Town Principles -- 3 Crown Cave, Guilin: A Chinese Perspective on Responsible Rural Tourism -- 4 Responsible Rural Tourism in Japan's Tea Villages -- 5 Community Garden Experience During the Off -Peak Tourism Rainy Season at Hoi An Heritage Town, Vietnam -- 6 Responsible Rural Tourism Initiatives and Local Community Development in Kerala, India -- 7 Linking Responsible Rural Tourism to Agritourism in the Philippines: A Case Study of Costales Nature Farms -- 8 Is Community-Based Tourism a Tool for the Sustainability of the Local Community and the Local Economy? The Case of Coruh Valley, Turkey -- 9 Community Characteristics, Social Cohesion and the Success of Community-Based Tourism: Case Studies of Vietnam -- 10 Conversations with the Local Champions of Miso Walai Homestay: Responsible Tourism in Practice -- 11 'MlupBaitong' – A Pioneer in Responsible Rural Tourism in Cambodia -- 12 Can Tourism be a Success Story? Stakeholders' Management and Narratives of Rural Tourism. Refl exive Analysis of a Tourism Project in Timor Leste -- 13 The Constructs of Responsible Rural Tourism Governance for Belum-Temengor Forest Reserve, Malaysia -- 14 The Quest for an Essentially Asian Form of Rural Tourism -- Index

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