ABSTRACT

This chapter examines how tourists produce places through 'consuming' them via sets of networked relations. Tourism comes to be stabilized through networks that need to be performed. Performing bodily proximity is central to the social practice of consuming tourist places. Networking is a central aspect of tourists' consumption and performance of places. The chapter discusses five principal dimensions of tourist places which are used to organize the subsequent case study of strolling tourists consuming a rather ordinary place, a maritime town on Bornholm. Tourist places are simultaneously places of the physical environment, embodiment, sociality, memory, and image. The chapter investigates how material natures, social relations and cultural conceptions intersect in the performance and stabilization of tourist places in time and space. The sociality and rhythm of attending to other people is crucial to the consumption of tourist places. If the music performed in sociality becomes memories, it may also stabilize tourist places over time.