Backpackers in global Sydney : final report

This report is based on the research undertaken for the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme project Backpacker Tourism in Global Sydney. This project was a partnership between the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney and six Sydney councils: the City of Sydney, Manly, North Sydney, Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra (see Appendix 1 for Council Profiles, pp.87-97). This project's principal aim therefore was to significantly increase our understanding of the social and cultural impacts of the backpacker phenomenon, focusing in particular on areas that attract large numbers of backpackers and budget travellers in Sydney. More specifically the project aimed to: 1. investigate the changing tourism dynamics within six Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Sydney. 2. identify key characteristics in backpacker tourism and support local councils in the development of policy, planning, and in the regulatory work associated with backpacker tourism. 3. investigate the challenges to local governance arising from competing and often conflicting obligations to both 'local' residential communities and 'global' agendas (tourism).