Everything is exciting and new. You might think that the new culture is ideal, and you
might think that it is much better than your own. If you are sometimes frustrated or
have problems, you quickly recover. Everything is quite positive, the people in the
new culture are very nice. This stage can last for months, or maybe only a couple of
days. It is called the tourist stage because tourists generally do not stay in a different
place long enough to have culture shock.