Exploring Extraordinary Lives: A Tourism Perspective - University Name

This essay delves into the idea that tourism provides individuals with opportunities to experience extraordinary lives, examining various models and perspectives. It begins by introducing the concept and highlighting the phenomenological analysis of holiday processes, emphasizing the role of experiencing and self-development. The essay then explores different modes of experiencing, including authentic exploration and existential tourism, referencing key researchers like Becker, Buhalis, and Veijola. It analyzes how tourism images integrate into daily life, providing leisure time for relaxation and exploration. The paper further discusses the importance of understanding the experience itself, the role of tourists, and the nature of destinations. The conclusion emphasizes that tourism offers an environment for individuals to choose their desired life experiences, offering a practical review of the emotional contrasts between experiencing modes. References are included to support the arguments presented.

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In tourism, individuals have an opportunity to experience that which is different and to
live, momentarily at least, extraordinary lives. Do you agree? Why / why not?
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Introduction
In this paper, various different models that are proposed according to the view of researchers in
support of the statement that in tourism the individuals have an opportunity to experience that
which is different and to live, momentarily at least, extraordinary lives is being discussed. The
phenomenological analysis of the holiday processes of tourism and the principal outcome along
with experiencing and also experiences are put forth.
The structure that is proposed in the literature will create new opportunities for consolidating the
context. In addition to this, to the managers and the researchers it is a chance for improving the
outcomes for both the destinations and tourist. As per Becker, the guidance provided by research
of leisure and recreation holiday tourism will be having the chance of becoming the diverse field
of study which will be promoting the benefits that are associated with the subjective
experiencing and the self-development since for globalizing the economies holidays are turned
out to be the universal need (Becker, 2016). Hence, tourism will become an attractive tool for
achieving the holiday outcomes that are desired as it will lead to the extraordinary living
conditions when combined with holidays (Buhalis & Foerste, 2015).
During the holiday time, the equilibrium can be regained by working people, refocus and even
restore their complete state of being on the planet, by fortifying their own improvement with the
relaxation exercises (Baker, 2014).
Therefore occasion tourism is thought to be an unprecedented circumstance as it gives the
snapshot of uncommon lives alleviation from the ordinary life and furthermore it is set apart by
such a sort of life, to the point that is far from home and work and proceeded by the adaptable
pay. A large portion of the commentators contend that uniqueness is lacked by holiday tourism,
which is required as the distinct subject or study. Such kind of arguments by Dickinson et al has
to be considered seriously since the powerful prototypes of turmoil and the theory of complexity
will be highlighting the relationship that exists in the world phenomena instead of reflecting the
coexisting realities clearly as it was promoted by Cartesian thinking (Dickinson et al., 2014). Be
that as it may, in fact the tourism images are implanted in the regular day to day existences of the
general population were for the greater part of the person's vacation tourism is separate as it will

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bear the cost of the accessibility of the significant measure of leisure time for them amid which
they can unwind for encountering the world as they are satisfied for.
Experiencing
The literature on tourism is rich in describing the views regarding the experiences as the
outcomes from this will be focusing majorly on the observable behavior along with the
satisfaction of experiencing extraordinary lives and motivations. In contrast to this, firstly the
tourism experience model will be seeking in understanding the experiencing process itself as the
originator of the experiences. This is significant while taking into account, on the one hand, the
role of tourist, their rights, and desires for satisfying their experiences and on the other hand the
exclusive nature of the destinations that are yet to be associated (Mason, 2015). However, when
it is closely examined the understanding towards the experiences is frequently immersed in
supply models that are clumsy, which implies the theories of behavioristic stimulus response and
are not aware of the subject of experiencing.
With a specific end goal to help them and others, the visitor encountering is characterized by
TEM as the conflux of what is seen exotically, how it is overseen, and how it is safeguarded in
the subsequent experience whereby the self in its change, development, and being is engaged
with the experience (Standing, Tang-Taye and Boyer, 2014). By portraying the procedures that
are interrelated through which the learning is procured, changed, and adjusted by a person as a
component of their decisive being on the planet where we can comprehend the structure of the
traveler and perceive their goal.
Experiencing authentic exploration
Existential tourists, according to (Veijola et al., 2014) are the individuals who have the belief that
they would have an extraordinary life and experience happy and meaningful lives elsewhere. The
desire of existential tourist is to go native and hence they would be in search of relocating some
of the time it can be on a permanent basis to varied places.
When compared with other experiential modes of Veijola’s that have been described previously,
it is the mode full of fantasies and desires along with an association of cultures that are romantic
and nostalgic. While it is challenging, by experimental tourist to a certain point that in the

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existential mode of experience the self is either discovered or renegotiated where the previously
indescribable, secretive, unachievable and sublime are interpreted gradually (Veijola et al.,
2014). In their relationship, the control and assurance are gained by the individual one over the
other. In such case the extraordinary situation becomes routine. While for some of the tourists,
for instance, the flamenco experience in Seville at the work of Matteucci might be a simple
liminal experience by which the experiences such as self-enriching and ecstatic have been felt
which is an extraordinary live situation while a few others had self-transformations deeper which
gave rise to new life trajectories.
By this, the alternative lifestyles have been adopted or new careers are taken in which central
role is occupied by flamenco. Whereas unity is strived by rediscover as a movement by focusing
on the activities where the existentialist will be turning more and more outwards for investigating
the new environments. When the tourist is back home to the routine life memories gained by
him through the tourism as an extraordinary life will become the subject of rediscovery or it
might be the subject of new discoveries were that is assumed by them from varied different
angles (Xiang, Magnini & Fesenmaier, 2015).
Locating the research of tourism in experiential space
In this area, the commonsense utilization of the tourism display has been exhibited and the cases
of the tourism writing have been sorted into the accompanying four methods of encountering. In
light of the elaboration, these modes have been seen in the smoothness of remarkable life here
the deliberate qualities are demonstrated by the modes however, which recognizes happens and
the impacts on the self-are related. Presently here these suspicions have been put for testing to
give the diagram and are searching for the gatherings and even individual occasions of writing so
as to perceive how precisely they fit into the model.
The procedure is thus known as the methodology of interpretation. It is stipulated by (Dickinson
et al., 2014) for the insight to take place there is a need for a relationship or a group of
relationships. In other way, it can be stated that in the world perceiving body or mind is situated
in such a way that both body and world are not separable. Therefore, to consciousness and
activity an additional dimension is considered to be the destination of tourist itself since the
mental and physical space turns into the interpersonal space (Buhalis & Foerste, 2015) whenever

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the tourist interacts and engages with it. In contrast to the models that have been described
previously on tourists in this interrelationship, it can be accounted with the physical and socio-
cultural environment. Further, the type of agency that is assumed by the destination is revealed in
this interaction.
The research instances that are cited will be including the serious leisure perspective of Stebbins
and Ciksentmihalyi’s flow, which is more likely to be based on a consciousness that is self-
reflective and activities that are self-directed including collective personalities that are
experienced in families and communities (Buhalis & Foerste, 2015).
In this discourse, it is likewise called attention to that a self-feeling is shown which is some way
or another outside the personality driven feeling of self as it seems to identify with the vulnerable
body as depicted by (Buhalis and Foerste, 2015). Therefore, experiencing will be related to the
type of authentic self of exploratory activity which is clear by having an extraordinary life
experience of self-change that is ongoing.
Conclusion
The opportunity that is promised by the holiday tourism in choosing one of the optimal
environments for extraordinary life experience is the place in which the individual chooses to be
the way they are striving for. The literature that is discussed and has chosen the methodology of
interpretation by using the fundamental of the experiencing to the models framework and has
given a practical review, especially regarding the emotional contrasts that has been suggested
between the modes of experiencing.
Therefore, by making use of different tourism models proposed by various different researchers
it has been noticed that at least momentarily an extraordinary life is experienced by people in
their tourism, holiday since they can experience the life in a different angle which will keep them
away from the routine day work and home. For example, in services of tourism, it has been
noticed to change the objective of the functionalities related to the experience and the features of
outcome as per the needs of tourists (Uriely, 2005).

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