Resumen de Israeli Backpacking Since the 1960s: institucionation and its effects
This article explores empirical and theoretical aspects concerning the heightened state of institutionalization of backpacking tourism. The exploration is accomplished through examining the evolution of Israeli backpacking in Asia and South America over the past four decades, and the effects of institutionalization on the tourist experience. From a theoretical perspective, the article seeks to illustrate modern processes of institutionalization through a cone eptuali7.auon of three, interrelated dimensions: changes in the personal experience., social and cultural vicissitudes in social systems, and organiiahonal pnxesses. from an empirical point of view, these dimensions are considered across three phases of evolution, during which they have undergone significant concomitant changes. This has resulted in the gradual transformation of backpacking tram a liminal and marginal practice, in which few alienated individuals partieip,rted during, the sixties of the twentieth century, to a massive and normative form of a touristic rite of passage in eontemperarti Israeli society.
