Tourists, like other newcomers to the city, are (a) relative to the citizen who, in the manner of de Certeau's walker,

constitutes [space], in relation to his position, both a near and a far, a here and a there. ...Walking affirms, suspects, tries out, transgresses, respects, etc., the trajectories it 'speaks' (Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, 1988, p 99).