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by onion2k 2523 days ago
Of course we will need some data to support my point

Does hundreds of years of travel writing and tens of thousands of biographies of people who travelled before going on to do amazing things count?

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Tens of thousands? There is some 5 milion tourists pers year to Bali and 35 milion to Thailand. Not to mention other destinations. So tens of thousands of biographies (if there is really such a number) is just an rounding error.

So I guess here is your answer.

What I simply meant is that travelling for most people is just a form of leisure not a life enhancing experience.

I don't agree. Very few people do anything significant enough to warrant a book about their life, but everyone who travels lives a better life afterward.

tens of thousands of biographies (if there is really such a number)

There's more than 80,000 in the biography section of Amazon, and that only includes the ones in print right now.