At forbinde steder – turistoplevelser på farten

There are many facets to the ways in which we experience places. Each individual links places with other people, and these linkages can be material, bodily, social, recollected, imagined and fantasy-based in nature. This article examines a range of recent contributions to understanding the concept of place within the context of mobility. This is done primarily on the basis of the most recent research relating to both geography and tourism – research that features ideas from a range of different performance-oriented approaches. These are approaches that on the one hand bring an important focus on the material, bodily and social aspects of experiencing a sense of place via phenomenology, and that on the other hand must involve additional dimensions above and beyond the immediately apparent, and incorporate aspects of imagination and fantasy. Three separate studies – relating to Allinge Harbour, the Hammershus fortress and The Viking Ship Museum – serve to show how the experience of place involves linkages and traces that transcend many different types of time and space.