The Tourist

The author discusses another kind of tourist: the kind that is actually interested in the culture and heritage of the place they are visiting, and pursues it with genuine interest, more akin to someone who has been bitten by the travel bug and has an almost addiction to discovering new places and learning new things about peoples and their societies. He also discusses the senselessness of travel packages or visiting the main drags of these tourist destinations as they have the same or very similar venues to what one would find in their own local municipality. Further, he suggests that they are created for the westernized traveler, and have little to do with the way of life of the locals that live in a given area in the majority of the world. Instead, he celebrates a truer traveler and an adventurer and separates this sort of tourist from the common tourists.