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Too many people want to travel

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    Cameage
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    What do you expect when there are metric tons of studies showing that having unique experiences that almost all require traveling is the key to happiness?

    What do you expect when there are metric tons of studies showing that having unique experiences that almost all require traveling is the key to happiness?

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    1. Victoria
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      I am also curious as to how much is within the nature of how people travel. There's a difference in the one-size-fits-all bringing large groups of people en masse to a specific location for a...

      I am also curious as to how much is within the nature of how people travel. There's a difference in the one-size-fits-all bringing large groups of people en masse to a specific location for a brief amount of time approach, creating an instantaneous jam of people who have one very specific thing in mind to see, versus a go-at-your-own-pace, see and appreciate things at a slower speed and with fewer people approach.

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  2. Bishop
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    On the contrary, I think the issue is that people aren't traveling enough. Rent is expensive. College is expensive. Food is expensive. Gas is expensive. Healthcare is expensive. (At least, from my...

    On the contrary, I think the issue is that people aren't traveling enough.

    Rent is expensive. College is expensive. Food is expensive. Gas is expensive. Healthcare is expensive. (At least, from my American perspective.)

    When people do travel, it's a big deal. These trips tend to serve as highlights for the year, or even highlights for life.

    So when the middle-class American family can somehow afford to visit France for a week, you bet your ass they're going to the the Eiffel Tower. Of course they're going to visit the Louvre just to stand at the Mona Lisa for half an hour. Yes they're going to go on castle tours, and yes they're going to take countless pictures at the Arc de Triomphe, at all the parisian cafés, and yes they will buy french wine and a baguette for shits and giggles.

    This is the one chance these people have to experience these things in person – so they will be visited.

    Were travel cheaper, more accessible, more frequent, this issue goes away.

    No one marvels at the Eiffel Tower a third time.

    Eventually they become curious of the France outside of Paris.

    The solution to the over-popularism (huh?) of these tourist attractions is not less tourism; it's more.

    And unfortunately – there is no easy road to "more tourism."

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