ABSTRACT
Drawing on phenomenology and the concept of ‘embodied responsivity’, this chapter explores the meanings and implications of mobile technologies and embodiment in the context of tourism. Drawing on ethnographic research on around the world travellers, it focuses on the role the internet and mobile technologies play in mediating embodied perceptions and performances of place. Based on a phenomenological understanding of place and embodiment, it analyses how mobile technologies allow human beings to extend and intensify their embodied presence across what comes to appear as a ‘planetary landscape’. Facilitated by contemporary media and mobility infrastructures digitally equipped travellers are not so much ‘here’ or ‘there’ but relationally ‘inter-placed’.
