It is generally recognized that travel
broadens the mind. However, I have a perception that every year millions of
people travel to other places for vacations, spending billions of euros,
looking for a kind of entertainment to fill the gap in their ordinary lives and
incidentally justify their vanity.
As for the ambiguity between TRAVELLERS OR
TOURISTS, being honest, I couldn’t find any difference nowadays. To my way of
thinking, all of them are people who appreciate the journeys like an experience
that meets their expectations. Some of them look for monuments and museums,
others geographical features and traditions or all at the same time. Therefore,
in the 21st century, with excellent
communications and globalization, the romantic image of a traveller associated
with an explorer is ridiculous; most of them are people who try to get away
from it all (work, studies or homework). For this reason, if we want to define
this activity with the negative connotation of a tourist or the positive view
of a traveller, I agree with some of our classmates that it is simply an
exercise of semantics.
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