Experienced Places and Moments of Otium/Leisure in contemporary European city tourism (P03*)

• Subject Area: Human Geography
• Term: from 2017 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 197396619

The main aim of project is to conceptualise Muße in the context of city tourism and to consider Muße as an urban phenomenon. Firstly, we will focus on three major European urban tourist destinations (Barcelona, Florence and Paris) and compile a linguistic corpus of nine German travel guide books which will be the subject of content and discourse analysis. Taking into account travel blogs and tourism statistics we will, secondly, carry out field work (including 20 – 30 semi-structured interviews with German speaking travellers) in each of the three cities. An analysis of the field work’s results will also be conducted.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1015: Muße (Leisure/Otium). Concepts, Spaces, Figures
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Tim Freytag