Mõned turistid Hispaanias suhtlevad haptiliselt nudistide rannaga, kuna tuult ja liiva on tunda nahal. Need temperatuuri, tekstuuri ja liikumise tunded on osa sensuaalsest haptilisest süsteemist, kus puudutatakse nahka ja kogu keha. Samamoodi kogetakse Kanadas Suure Karu vihmametsas matkates ja karude vaatamisel haptilisi turismielamusi, sest tuul ja ilm puudutavad nahka, soojendades, jahutades, niisutades või silitades seda. Vabaaja veetegevusi, näiteks sukeldumist, teostatakse ka vee puudutuse kaudu, kusjuures vee tekstuur, temperatuur ja ruumilisus on tunda ning selles kontekstis toimib puudutus haptilise kogemuse osana.
Some tourists in Spain, for example, engage haptically with a nudist beach as wind and sand are felt by the skin. These feelings of temperature, texture and movement are part of a sensuous haptic system, whereby the skin and whole body is touched and touches. Likewise, when hiking and bear-viewing in the Canadian Great Bear Rain Forest tourist experiences are ‘framed by the haptic for, at all times, wind and weather touched our skin thus warming, cooling, moistening or stroking us’. Leisure aquatic activities such as scuba diving are also performed through the touch of the water, whereby ‘the texture, temperature and spatiality’ of water is felt and embodied suspending and enfolding the diving body. In this context ‘touch operates as part of a hapticality’ which is ‘a kinaesthesia that allows the body to feel its positionality in space’.
