Shimizu started with the Budget Inn and Tour Club, two wildly popular backpacker guesthouses in Kyoto.
What Bhutan has not become is the new backpacker destination on the Boulder-Goa-Kathmandu enlightenment-trail model.
"Heck no, we're not turning a profit, " says backpacker-turned-entrepreneur David Haines, ActionAce's president and CEO.
At both the luxury and backpacker ends of the market, operators are being hit hard.
Women wave from street stalls adorned with pictures stolen from the pages of Lonely Planet, the popular backpacker guide.
United Airlines finds ways to really squeeze the suit and collect just a few extra dollars from the backpacker, too.
Now, thanks to years of recession, even a backpacker can enter a tearoom once reserved for CEOs and enjoy its economies of scale.
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Otherwise, Ushuaia offers a wide range of accommodation options, from backpacker hostels to luxury hotels perched on glacial mountainsides overlooking the city.
The family of a teenage backpacker who vanished in Cambodia are fundraising in an attempt to sponsor a school there in his memory.
The father of a backpacker who disappeared on a paraglider in the Himalayas has urged others to carry GPS devices in case they get lost.
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Mr Turner has cherished his dream of ferrying pilgrims at Sangam since 1989, when as a 21-year-old backpacker in India he visited that year's Kumbh festival.
The parents of a Sussex backpacker who went missing in Cambodia nine years ago say they are now convinced their son was murdered for his money.
"It's imperative to have a unique point of view because you need a way to stand out from the thousands of other bloggers, " says James Feess of The Savvy Backpacker.
These pushcart affairs can be found anywhere - at the east end of the backpacker ghetto on Lebuh Chulia, in the Red Garden center behind the Hotel Continental, on the seafront esplanade.
For something completely different, head up to the northernmost tip of the state, not far from the backpacker haven of Arambol, for a stay at Fort Tiracol, a 17th-century Portuguese fort teetering on the cliffs of the Indian Ocean.
The variety of islands, stretching between the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico to the South American coast, means you can keep visiting the islands and having different vacations: romantic, adventurous, relaxing, foodie, luxury, backpacker, gambling and more.
Bangkok jeweler Acharavadee Wongsakon, for instance, on June 30 led a procession of several hundred protesters through the city's famous Chatuchak weekend market and the Khao San Road backpacker district to persuade Thais and foreign tourists to show more respect.
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Probably the greatest danger to tourists on Koh Phangan is posed by the vast amounts of alcohol and other stimulants during the monthly full-moon parties on Haad Rin, which have become one of the biggest attractions on the so-called 'backpacker trail' through South East Asia.
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The 440 kilometer footslog from the botanical wonderland of Abisko National Park in the north, to the pretty backpacker's town of Harnavan in the south, taking in the giant Kebnekaise -- Sweden's highest mountain - is divided into four portions that represent roughly one week of hiking each.
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