抄録
Honolulu Marathon is popular among the Japanese families, who claim they aim to strengthen their family ties through the marathon experience. However, this ”bonding” process begins in Japan while they start preparing for their trip. That is, these families practice their everyday life in the non ordinary, unlike the common assumption that argues tourism is cut off from their ordinary time and space.
This study shows that a family vacation has both the elements of the ”ordinary” and the ”nonordinary” at the same time. It challenges the binary, as has been proposed by Turner and others, that defines the tourism as ”nonordinary” activities.
