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ABSTRACT
The main goal of this paper is to comprehend the perception of the backpacker
travelers about the comercial relations established in their travel experiences and the
possible factors and situations that leads them to be financially exploited in these
relations. To comprehend this, bibliographical researches and extensive
interviews were made with Brazilian backpackers, and one market
agent specialized in the backpacker segment in the Rio de Janeiro state. The semistructured
qualitative interviews were guided by three analysis categories: pretravel,
travel, and post-travel. The reseach explained the main agents of the
exploitation and the main reasons for the occurrence of financial exploitation
experiences. The research also demonstrated that experiences such as this are
frequent and that, inevitably, they alter the final perception of the travelers about its
own experiences in the destination. Through the perception of the main actors
involved in the comercial relations established on the destination, the traveler and the
market, methods and means were tried with the objective of minimizing experiences
of financial exploitations.
Keywords: Travel, Travelers, Backpackers, Relations between visitors and visited.
Financial Exploitation.