Backpacking has shifted from a niche subculture to a mainstream travel style, fueled by digital nomadism, social media, and hostel growth. While marketed as a path to self-discovery, critics argue the ...

A travel blogger has expressed her shock after six backpackers were revealed to have been poisoned at a Laos hostel she had promoted on social media. Steph Dawson, who runs an Instagram travel account ...

If you can find the right location and keep your overhead down and your prices low, it's possible to make a pretty good living out of running a backpacker hostel. Although most backpackers travel on a ...

Google reviews warning travellers about a Laos Hostel that’s involved in an investigation for mass methanol poisoning are reportedly being wiped from the platform after it was labelled as a “slander ...

ON THE night he was fatally stabbed at a hostel, backpacker Tom Jackson was meant to be hundreds of kilometres away. A special investigation by news.com.au has uncovered the underbelly of the ...

In these temporary communities, each new encounter with someone great and surprising feels like an incredible fluke Some years back, at the Naughty Squirrel backpackers hostel in Riga (twice winner of ...

Travel etiquettes are the set of guidelines and customs that one must follow while traveling. With technology and digitisation blurring boundaries and connecting the world like never before, it might ...

One night, while backpacking in Guatemala, I was woken up by a pain in my leg. Nearly bumping my head against the upper bunk ...