ATLAS created the ‘Backpackers Research Group’, an international network of academics involved
in studies of student and youth travel, which exploded the myth that there was little or no research
on this market by assembling the first comprehensive bibliography of research work on the young
independent traveller. This body of work covers the psychological, economic, market and personal
development impact of the young traveller and is used as an important context to ‘Today’s Youth
Travellers: Tomorrow’s Global Nomads’.