Time Off: The Social Experience of Time on Vacation

Stein, Karen

doi:10.1007/s11133-012-9228-2

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“…However, camping brings people back to a more basic relationship with produce and the purchase of food makes a routine temporal demand. These temporal control points align tourists with the "everyday time" that is still evident around them as they interact with tourism employees and local residents (Stein, 2012).…”

Section: Control Of Timementioning

confidence: 91%

“…It is a chance to step out of our everyday routines (Richards, 1998) and find time for ourselves. A tourist's experience of time out is very varied as some choose to do very little while others pack in more activities than they do at home (Dickinson & Peeters, 2012;Stein, 2012). Time out can also be interpreted as a stepping out of time as tourists may choose to ignore the clock-time that governs their home life and enter an "ex tempore" existence (Kwan, 2007) where activities unfold on an "as and when required" basis.…”

Section: Time Tourism and Travel Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Jim indicates, home life is very structured for most participants while tourism is very fluid. The accounts represent this tourism time as different to everyday life and a "time off" (Stein, 2012) that is not determined by others. This is a particular feature of rural tourism (Sharpley & Jepson, 2011) where time becomes less restricted and deceleration plays an important role (Matos, 2004).…”

Section: Time Fluiditymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tourism represents a time to step outside the clock-time routines of day-to-day life (Elsrud, 1998;Richards, 1998;Stein, 2012) and research has explored the multiple temporalities of tourism and temporal rhythms that characterise destinations (Baerenholdt, Haldrup, Larsen & Urry, 2004;Germann Molz, 2010;Haldrup, 2004). Despite the importance of time in tourism and to the tourism transport problem, it has rarely been analysed from the perspective of the individual tourist experience and its role in tourist travel behaviour.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding temporal rhythms and travel behaviour at destinations: potential ways to achieve more sustainable travel

Dickinson

Filimonau

Cherrett

et al. 2013

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper analyses the roles played by time in destination based travel behaviour. It contrasts clock time's linear view of time with fragmented time, instantaneous time, fluid time and flow, time out and the multiple temporalities of tourism experiences. It explores temporal issues in a destination travel context, using qualitative techniques. Data were captured using a diary-photography, diary-interview method with tourists at a rural destination; their spatial and temporal patterns were captured using a purpose built smartphone app. The analysis revealed three temporal themes influencing travel behaviour: time fluidity; daily and place related rhythms; and control of time. Three key messages emerge for future sustainable tourist destination based travel systems. Given the strong desire for temporal fluidity, transport systems should evolve beyond clocktime regimes. Second, temporal forces favour personal modes of transport (car, walk, cycle), especially in rural areas where public transport cannot offer flexibility. Third, the car is personalised and perceived to optimise travel fluidity and speed, but is currently unsustainable. Imaginative initiatives, using new mobile media technology can offer new positive and proactive car travel, utilising spare public and private vehicle capacity. Research is needed to implement mechanisms for individualised space-time scheduling and collective vehicle use strategies.

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Section: Control Of Timementioning

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Section: Time Tourism and Travel Behaviourmentioning

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Section: Time Fluiditymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Understanding temporal rhythms and travel behaviour at destinations: potential ways to achieve more sustainable travel

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Cherrett

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“…Employees are granted a limited number of vacation days (accrued with years of service). The number of vacation days utilized for sick time would significantly reduce access to vacation time, yet vacation time is essential for engagement in recreation, relaxation, and rejuvenation (Stein, 2012). When employees use vacation time in lieu of sick time, it creates a cycle that reduces the use of vacation for leisure, rest, and relaxation and thus can potentially lead to an increase in stress, burnout, and contribute to a general state of unwellness.…”

Section: Employees' Work Of Managing and Negotiating Episodes Of Deprmentioning

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The “Work” of Workplace Mental Health

Malachowski

Boydell

Sawchuk

et al. 2016

Society and Mental Health

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This article employs institutional ethnography (IE) inclusive of its distinctive epistemological stance to elucidate the institutional organization of the everyday work experience of the employee living with selfreported depression. The study was conducted within a large industrial manufacturing plant in Ontario, Canada. We discuss three institutionally organized processes that play a dominant role in coordinating the experiences of employees with self-reported depression: (1) employees' work of managing and negotiating episodes of depression, (2) managers' administrative work of maintaining privacy and confidentiality, and (3) the administrative work of authorizing illness. We shed light on how confidential medicalized disability management programs render managers ill prepared and inadequately trained to provide mental health support to their employees. Our findings inform advocacy efforts and facilitate both organizational and policy change to enhance services and supports for employees.

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The Flayed and Exquisite Self of Travelers: Managing Face and Emotions in Strange Places

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2015

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Travelers who cross cultural and linguistic borders encounter recurrent failures of social competence. People routinely violate the linguistic and nonlinguistic normative order, and have few means at their disposal for repair work. These episodes lead to the experience of a flayed self: a temporary, painful identity born of one\u27s inability to display competence, combined with heightened, exquisite self-consciousness. Using interactionist scaffolding and travelers\u27 accounts, I examine this self, its commitments, and resources. I examine four techniques used to avoid flayed and exquisite selfhood: denying negative experience, externalizing the causes of that experience, engaging in the mind cure, and doing time work

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Time Off: The Social Experience of Time on Vacation

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

Understanding temporal rhythms and travel behaviour at destinations: potential ways to achieve more sustainable travel

Understanding temporal rhythms and travel behaviour at destinations: potential ways to achieve more sustainable travel

The “Work” of Workplace Mental Health

The Flayed and Exquisite Self of Travelers: Managing Face and Emotions in Strange Places

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