The type and speed of changes that are taking place in today’s world as well as the architecture of the changing social relations and the mode of participating in space directly affect the nature of cities. The article is an attempt of showing the impact of changes in the modern city on urban tourism and connecting them with the image of the tourist identity of literary heroes in the latest Polish prose. The paper is based on findings from the fields of tourism anthropology, urban sociology and the prose of Polish authors born in the 70s and 80s. The combination of tourism and literary perspective aims at showing the relationship between new forms of urban tourism and the experience of urban tourists that is present in the Polish prose. The diagnosis is based on the distinction between two types of spaces of global cities: hyperspace and peripheral space, as well as reflections on the category of the tourist gaze.