ABSTRACT
The tourist's experience of place is the instrumental to the experience of the Other, but the experience of the Other is not an end in itself either. One need to find a balance between home and reach, and the consequent dynamics of readiness-to-hand and presence-at-hand, creates the conceptual basis to express travel as dialectics between home and the Other. These concepts of humanistic geography are thus a key in creating the framework of travel as circle of experience of home and the Other. This conceptualisation places a great deal of emphasis on the processes that take place inside a tourist's mind. The aspects that affect tourist's experience of the Other and their interrelations are illustrated in it. This is to underline the fact that even the most personal experiences and meanings do not appear without larger contexts. Thus the work largely follows the post-structural idea of tourism as consumption of the commodified Other.
