ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the relations between everyday life and mass tourist practice, and the ways in which mass youth tourism could be said to echo accounts of cultural tourism as consumption of familiarity. It details the practices of clubbing tourists and the relationships of these to the rhetoric of tourism and leisure providers in Ayia Napa and Faliraki. The chapter illustrates case-studies of clubbing on holiday; holiday sex and the taste of home are about the signifying practices of those participating in clubbing holidays to Ayia Napa in Cyprus and Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes. It concerns the relationships and intersections between the spectacle' and the banal' and the processes through which both are created and sustained. The chapter considers the quotidian is inherently bound up with broader interests in performativity and practice seen across the social sciences and humanities, as well as in tourism research.
