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by karatestomp 2222 days ago
For almost everyone, for almost all of our history as agricultural city-builders, traveling for pleasure has been a small or entirely absent feature of human lives. That's still true, today. Doesn't seem particularly necessary, given that.

Something to aspire to, that everyone can be a tourist more than very, very rarely in their lives? IDK, maybe. But remember that most in the US will pick Vegas or a Mexican all-inclusive beach resort or something like that over anything especially horizon-expanding, and people in the rest of the world probably aren't much different so far as that goes. So unless you're picking the destinations, I wouldn't count on most of a large increase in tourism-related travel to be especially ignorance-diminishing.