ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how tourist sites and places are staged and performed, especially through tourist practices. It examines the role of tourist mobility in performing, producing and perceiving places. The chapter also examines tourist mobility as a 'performed art', with its own styles of relating to landscapes, sites and people encountered, perceived, experienced, made sense of and enjoyed. Drifting produces pleasures that escape both the logic of inhabiting and navigating and follows its own logic and prescriptions, the freedom and pleasure of movement along the 'open road'. The chapter describes the embodied and hybridised mobilities of family tourists on holiday, as well as the discourses framing their perception of sites and landscapes. It presents a close reading of diary accounts kept by families spending their summer vacation of one to three weeks in rented holiday houses on the Danish North Sea Coast.
