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Drifting Towards Paradise Inc
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- Title: Drifting Towards Paradise Inc: The Mainstreaming of Anti-tourist Travellers in Thailand
- Author(s): Rob Winger
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review
- Keywords: Tourism, Travel Cultures, Backpacker Studies, Literary Travel Genre, Thailand, History of Anti-Tourist Cultures, Anti-backpackers, (Post)Modern Subjectivity, Globalization, Mainstreaming, Drifters, Guidebooks
- Volume: 5
- Issue: 5
- Date: October 13, 2006
- ISSN: 1447-9532 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9583 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v05i05/39097
- Citation: Winger, Rob. 2006. "Drifting Towards Paradise Inc: The Mainstreaming of Anti-tourist Travellers in Thailand." The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review 5 (5): 101-112. doi:10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v05i05/39097.
- Extent: 12 pages
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Abstract
A survey of anti-tourist tenets in travel and scholarly literatures, I explore the mainstreaming of anti-tourist trends in late 20th century Thailand, suggesting a new typology for thinking the anti-tourist.
