Tourism is a more-than-human phenomenon and showcases a wide array ofmultispecies interactions. Nevertheless, tourism research is predominantlyconducted from a humancentric perspective and do not account for relationalperspectives of human-animal encounters. Moreover, the lack of insects in tourismresearch does not mirror the popularity of entomotourism and humanity’sdependency on insects. From an ecofeminist theoretical framework, the aim is toexplore how tourist-insect encounters are legitimized by tourists and how western,anthropocentric ideas of human autonomy, excellence, and separation arereproduced and resisted in tourist-insect encounters. A ‘thoughtful relational space’is created from the initiated dialogue between an ecofeminist theoretical frameworkand the concept of nonhuman charisma. This space allows for an exploration of therelationality in multispecies interactions in tourism settings while disruptinghumancentric views of the tourist-insect encounters.Social media posts that display tourist-insect encounters were used as starting pointsto conduct the nine in-depth interviews. The participants were invited to answerimaginative questions about the insect’s perspective in the particular encounter. Thefindings show that the human participants identify tourists involved in multispeciesinteractions as both saviors and destroyers. The ‘insectness’ that the participantsidentify departs from but also lacks humanness. Furthermore, distinctions are madebetween species and some insects are deemed undesirable to encounter.Nevertheless, the disruptive element of imagined accounts of the insect’sperspective revealed that humans are considered undesired and redundant. Thefindings indicate that radical exclusion, incorporation, instrumentalization, andhomogenization is at work in the participants’ stories of the encounters. Yet, theencounters were legitimized from a human perspective due to raised awarenessabout insects and the spread of information in social media, which may lead to moreconservation efforts to save the insects from human impacts. The participantsrecognize the importance of insects on species level, which showcases how themicro perspective highlighted by the theoretical framework is accompanied by amacro perspective introduced by the participants.The interviews showcase elements of human autonomy, excellence, and separationin the encounters with insects. Yet, to some extent, the participants alsoacknowledge how the human in the encounter act at the expense of the individualinsect. The ‘thoughtful relational space’ framework together with the imaginativequestions approach and the inclusion of insects in tourism settings create adisruptive element that foster a relational perspective of multispecies interactions.Ecofeminist frameworks and imaginative questions in the context of multispeciesencounters can be explored further to challenge humancentric ideas of the positionsof humans and other-than-humans in tourism research and practices.