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On the Origin of Tourist Experiences

A Historical, Phenomenological Perspective on Travel Stories

Jaap Lengkeek

316 pages, 22 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-088-9 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (November 2026)

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Travel narratives have been recorded since the invention of writing, surviving as myths, epics, official records, diaries, and personal accounts. Despite this long history, their significance remains largely absent from contemporary studies of travel and tourism. Bringing together philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives, this book examines what these narratives reveal about the nature of travel experience. It shows how accounts from the past illuminate the enduring fascination with what lies beyond everyday life. Situating tourism within a longer history, it argues that, despite its contested impacts, travel reflects a persistent human impulse that continues to shape contemporary practices.

Jaap Lengkeek has had a long and illustrious career at the University of Wageningen where he worked from 1985 onwards, and was responsible for the MSc Leisure, Tourism and Environment and part of the BSc Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning. In 2006 he became the President of the Research Committee on International Tourism (RC50) of the International Sociological Association. His last appointment after his retirement in 2008, was as academic director of the Breda University of Applied Sciences until 2012.

Subject: Anthropology (General)SociologyTravel and Tourism


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