https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
“A tourist is a temporarily leisured person who voluntarily visits a place away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change.”
“Tourists are less likely to borrow from their hosts than their hosts are from them, thus precipitating a chain of change in the host community.”
we unchanged changers, we tourists
If you are going to see something you neither value nor aspire to value, you are not doing much of anything besides locomoting.
When you travel, you suspend your usual standards for what counts as a valuable use of time.
They need him to “certify their experience as genuine.”
The tourist is a deferential character. He outsources the vindication of his experiences to the ethnologist, to postcards, to conventional wisdom about what you are or are not supposed to do in a place
If you aren’t planning a major life change, the prospect looms, terrifyingly, as “More and more of this, and then I die.”
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