(Other) backpackers and affective Europe

Previous research has identified travellers from non-Western regions as an emerging market for European destinations, considering they increasingly take solo trips and use backpacker facilities. Using retrospective collaborative autoethnography along with affect theory, this note centres on backpackers in Europe, emphasis investigating our encounters during backpacking travels across four countries own Western-non-Western identities. By unfolding a series of affective between us visited cities, we endeavour to illuminate some ponderings over travel identities sense (un)welcoming Europe.