旅行通常有两种方式:或是“上车睡觉、下车拍照”式的走马观花,或是全情投入、心灵洗礼式的文化探索。那么,你会选择当一名观光客,抑或是一名旅行者呢?
When you vacation, do you go as a tourist or as a traveler? I dare say that most people have never asked themselves the question. But for me, the two are different.
Webster’s Third New International Dictionarydefines a tourist as “one that makes a tour”, where “tour” is defined as “a journey where one returns to the starting point”. It defines a traveler as “one that goes on a trip or journey... specifically, one that travels to distant or unfamiliar places”. The emphasis in the definition of “tourist” is on the return to the origin, the return home. The emphasis in the definition of “traveler” is on the going, the venturing to a new or foreign place.
In my opinion (based on years of observing visitors to my adopted home, Paris), tourists are more likely to maintain a distance between themselves and the places that they visit. Their purpose in traveling is to “see the sights”, take photos, and eat a local dish or two. They often travel in tour groups, which offer information about the sights, but also discourage individual discovery. Thus, at travel destinations tourists behave as one would before department store window displays, viewing them but not venturing into the store to buy.
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