Honours Seminar: Strengths, Skills, Self, and the ‘Third Place’ – Contemporary Backpacking Experiences in the Global Digital Age
By exploring both the clichés and realities of modern travel, this project reveals how young adults negotiate identity, growth, and belonging within rapidly changing global tourism systems.
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Description
Isabelle Dunk's Honours project examines the experiences of contemporary young adults when travelling in the global digital age. She discuss clichés and realities of personal development, identity exploration and international traveller community, investigating how today’s travellers navigate changing tourism systems that result from globalisation and the increasing impacts of digital technologies.
About the speaker
I am an Honours student with passion for ethnographic, qualitative and multi-method modes of inquiry in research. Combining social and natural sciences throughout my undergraduate studies, my broad research interests resulted in an Honours project that draws on sociology, anthropology, and psychology to examine contemporary tourism systems and environments.
Location
Frank Fenner Seminar Room