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In Walter Benjamin’s writing of idleness, he contradicts the leisure obtained by it with labor that is done by lower-class people. In this sense, Benjamin would extend his definition of idleness to travelling, and the people who can afford leisure and wandering are classified as travelers.
Another connection worth making is the “planning” and “adventure” involved in idling. Same as touring in a city, the continuous experience is built on a large scale by “multiple tradition”; whereas the “immediate experience” comes from an impulse of action. It is the predictableness and unexpectedness make idling a unique way of exploring the city. These is no absolute division between such two actions: “In this way there comes into play the peculiar configuration by dint of which long experience appears translated into the language of immediate experience.” This sounds like a natural yet intrinsic process. As an observer of tourists, it is crucial to understand how they are able to translate what they encounter into their own experience based on the knowledge or tradition of their own.
Last but not least, Benjamin talks the emotion impact on travelers. Solitude is one of the important aspects of idleness, for it allow individual to be embraced in empathy. It is the one last thing left when the tourist or traveler finishes its journey and all the excitements brought by “immediate experience” have now become part of the continuous experience and submerge into the past. Such emotion can sometimes be best reflected through travelling journals, in which one can obtain the fullest impression of the tourists, who were once privileged to idle among the city.

My Convolute--- Tourism
1. “The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.”
Work cited:
Goodman, Paul. "Proverbia-Tourism". Vicent Jordà. 2001-2008
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2. Tourists who come from different cultural background might have different percepectives about Amsterdam, and its impacts on the tourists might vary as well. By observing their interactions with the city and its people, one can obtain various flavors for each and every aspect of experiences there.

3. “For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.”
Baudelaire, Charles. "Baudelaire, Charles quote". QuatationsBook. .