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Modern tourism, on the other hand, insulates people from experiencing and knowing the world through an elaborate set of protections (such chain motels and fast food restaurants of unrelieved sameness, pre-arranged tours, etc.). It transformed travelers into passive consumers of painless adventure. Worst of all, the selling of “brand U.S.A.” by the
...blatantly trivializes the uniqueness of regions, events and places.
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Years ago, historian Daniel Boorstin, in his book The Image, discussed the difference between travel and tourism. Travel he stated was an activity that compelled people to truly interact with the places they visited. People traveled on their own terms, following their own passions and accepted whatever distress that came their way as the price paid for the pleasure granted.
