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Five Characteristics of Lifestyle Travellers
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Five Characteristics of Lifestyle Travellers

Yohei Okamoto
TTRA Asia Pacific Chapter Conference 2024, 11 (Dusit Thani College, Bangkok, 30/11/2024–03/12/2024)
03/12/2024
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Abstract

Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
Lifestyle mobility can be defined as “ongoing semi-permanent moves of varying duration … [and] sustained as an ongoing fluid process, carrying on as everyday practice over time” (Cohen et al., 2015, p.158). There is a diverse range of lifestyle mobility today, such as digital nomadism, vanlife, and lifestyle migration (Rickly, 2016). Those who practice lifestyle mobility can be labelled as lifestyle travellers: “individuals who actively pursue travel indefinitely and as a way of life rather than as a temporal break from normality” (Williamson, Hassanli, & Grabowski, 2022, p.234). Global nomads (Kannisto, 2016), permanent travellers (E. Cohen, 1974), are other similar terms used by commentators. Lifestyle mobility is a contemporary phenomenon and concept emerged as a result of increasing mobility in contemporary society and seeing mobility as an important means to fulfil self-identity needs (Mclntyre, 2009), as well as changing dynamics between work and leisure, home and away (S. A. Cohen et al., 2015). Active investigation on lifestyle mobilities, as a unified term began around the 2010s (S. A. Cohen et al., 2015; Mclntyre, 2009) as the new mobility paradigm started to gain traction (Sheller & Urry, 2006, 2016). However, to date, there has not been any attempt to focus on specific dimensions in defining lifestyle travellers. Therefore, the present research aims to address this knowledge gap by proposing the following five defining characteristics of lifestyle travellers.

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