Young Adult Israeli Backpackers in India

Darya Maoz

2005

[…] Every year, out of 5.5 million Israeli Jewish citizens, about 50,000 travel to India as backpackers, most of them immediately after their military service. Backpacking is a very significant phenomena in Israel, first manifested in the 1980s, and now extending to later age groups. In Western countries the young adults age group is very…

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Darya Maoz

b. 1969

Darya Maoz received her doctorate in sociology and anthropology from the Hebrew University. Her area of specialty is the travel patterns of Israelis to India and other Eastern societies. Maoz has taught at the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University, has held a Melton post-doctoral fellowship, and is associated with the department of tourism at the Centre for Academic Studies, Or Yehuda.

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