Travelogue: Central & Eastern Europe
Such a thing is also existential because it affirms the existence of yourself as you are and who you wish to become (e.g., a Hoosier turned New York City fashionista). Unlike objective or constructive authenticity, “existential experience involves personal or intersubjective feelings activated by the liminal process of tourist activities.”
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
As a result, if you’re traveling as a form of vacation, you know you will be back in your box very, very shortly. This tends to provoke the behavior of “experience maximization,” in which you’re running around in a flurry of fatiguing excitement to experience every moment possible in your travels.