LightBackpacking.com

As a public relations consultant, I am involved in promoting tourism. To be honest with you I had no idea there was such a thing as “backpacking” tourism. Well check this item out at News.com in Australia.

Backpackers are such an independent group, the idea of a group of backpackers being herded onto buses and taken to trails is beyond my comprehension, but get these figures:

New figures released by the Australia Department of Immigration show in the nine months to March 2007, a record 102,966 backpackers were granted the visas - a 15 per cent spike on the same period the previous year.