Smaller tents may be sufficiently fluorescent that they can be carried for distant distances on a pack animal, or on a touring bicycle, a boat, or even a person's back.

Inflatable pole supports, also down pat as airbeams, serve as rigid structural supports when inflated but are soft and pliable when deflated. Much like a bicycle tube and tire, airbeams Solo Tents are often composed of a highly dimensionally stable (i.e. no stretch) fabric sleeve and an air-holding inner bladder. However, other airbeam constructions consist of coated fabrics that are cut and manufactured to its intended shape by a method such as thermal welding.