ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to direct the new mobility position towards tourist practices, seeing these as material, embodied, contingent, networked and performed. The 'new mobility' seeks to move beyond these particular metaphysical positions, to view places as significant to those living in them but also to those who visit. It sees places as contingently stabilised sources of deeply held meanings and attachments but where these stem from networks that enable particular embodied and material performances to occur, performances normally involving both 'hosts' and 'guests'. The book examines contrasting examples of landscape as many areas in Denmark came to be toured and subjected to connoisseurship from afar. It provides detailed qualitative accounts of various 'mobile' performances by 'tourists' that happen in certain places, performances that help to constitute those very places.
