Conceptualising Tourist Idleness and Creating Places of Otium in Nature-Based Tourism

Jelena Farkiæ, Gorana Isailoviæ and Miha Lesjak
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Jelena Farkiæ: University of Greenwich, UK
Gorana Isailoviæ: Academy of Applied Studies, Serbia
Miha Lesjak: University of Primorska, Slovenia

Academica Turistica - Tourism and Innovation Journal, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 11-23

Abstract: This paper conceptualises tourist idleness as a temporary engagement in slow, slothful and entirely unstructured holiday activities. We aim to extend the studies that prioritise the modalities of holidays in nature that encourage simplified, slower, immersive experiences, and which celebrate mindfulness, slowness and stillness as part of a tourist journey. In framing idleness as a relaxing, creative and recuperative holiday practice, we suggest that creating places of otium which encourage ‘doing nothing’ can in many ways enhance tourist wellbeing. To this end, we discuss the significance of spatial, temporal and existential elements of tourist idleness, whilst arguing that this ‘practice’ should be more celebrated in our modern, high-speed societies.

Keywords: wellbeing; idleness; leisure; otium; slowness; nature-based tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26493/2335-4194.15.11-23

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