leisure, tourism, work and ...

The existence of work and leisure depends on each other. If there is no work, there is no leisure, and if there is no leisure, there is no work, just like the relationship between high and low, rich and poor, failure and success. They are all relational concepts. Also the concepts of work and leisure actually overlap to some degree. For example, when we follow the tourism agency to visit, ususally we have to follow very strict schedules, getting up very early and only had limited time for each place. We have no freedom to choose the places we want to go or how long we want to stay. We are like materials going through the product line of the tourism industry, under the control of somebody else.

In tourism, what becomes things to visit usually is not the things themselves, but its representative significance. For example, people visit the hollywood, because it, to some extent, represents Los Angeles. People visit Nanjing Road in Shanghai, because it was part of the Shanghai identity. The same holds true for the Great Wall in Beijing, and the Statue of Liberty in New York. Some of them are truly masterpieces of humans, and can evoke deep feelings in our hearts, while others are just symbols, usually from historical importance, and even when the history is gone, they still stay there as simply a gear of the tourism industry. To visit those place mainly means "I have been there", just like to ask signature from a star, the only connection is the two things intersect at a particular temporal and spatial point.

Tourism is also a means to sharpen our perceptions. Without going out, you can hardly appreciate how nice the home is. Without experiencing the unfamiliar, your lose sense of the familiar. Without relaxation, you have no motivation to work.