Thailand is cracking down on “beg-packers” — shameless Western backpackers begging for travel money on the streets of Southeast Asia. According to reports, visitors entering Thailand may be ...

‘Less is more’ is now the prevailing wisdom, so long as their pockets are stuffed with Thai baht. The backpacker on a shoestring budget does not feature highly on the most-wanted list.

BANGKOK, Thailand — Where have all the gritty backpackers gone, those shoestring vagabonds from the West with soiled, baggy garb who considered body odor the badge of a true traveler.

beamed Enrico, a wide-eyed Italian backpacker I’d met on the journey ... It’s an age-old thieving trick on the tourist buses that ply Thailand’s most popular routes, and I’d hoped to ...

But relatively untouched Thailand is still attracting intrepid backpackers. They come in all sizes, shapes, and colors, and from nearly all corners of the world. The one thing these young and not ...

Thai police have defended their controversial investigation into the brutal murder of two British backpackers. Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found bludgeoned to death on a ...

KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Reuters) - The final hours of two British backpackers killed on a Thai resort island last year were tracked by more than a dozen security cameras, a court was told during the ...

A foreign backpacker making his first visit to Thailand was planning an island getaway in the South, but after a miscommunication he ended up in the North nearly 1,200 kilometres away. He also ...