Abstract
This paper explores socio-spatial changes in a backpacker area in Vang Vieng, Laos. In this rural town, homogenous built environment forms a tourist area where the "indigenous characteristics of underdeveloped rural town" remain and are prominent. The paucity of tourist development is one of the special attractions of the town for international backpackers. However, local people are pursuing vigorously further evolution of the town as a tourist place, and therefore, transformation in the socio-spatial structures of the area has been proceeding at a remarkable pace. In that sense, locality of rural town which has attracted foreign tourists is very fragile.
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