Tourist vs. Traveller... Is There A Difference?

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Anyways, moving on, this weeks topic is:

The difference between a traveller and a tourist

Ahh, yes, it’s an age-old question, one for the history books, and, as a business within the travel space, a question that we get asked a lot more often than you think.

But tourist vs traveller, does it really matter? And why do people care so much? Is there even a fundamental difference between the two?

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It seems like almost everyone has an opinion on this one, so, we thought it would be fitting to take it into our hands and really break it down.

By definition, taken from Oxford Languages, both read as follows:

Tourist - a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure.

Traveller - a person who is travelling or who often travels.

Hmm… Strikingly similar, it seems… You could swap the definitions around, and it would still suit the word at hand.

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We need to go deeper.

Perhaps we could analyse a quote from Alex Garland’s novel, ‘The Beach’.

“I had ambiguous feelings about the difference between tourists and travellers – the problem being that the more I travelled, the smaller the differences became. But the one difference I could still latch on to was that tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”

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That kind of makes sense; maybe what he’s trying to convey is the fact that travellers care; they have a desire to learn about the history, indulge in the culture, and become a part of the place they are visiting, as opposed to simply needing a break from real life.

Could that be it?

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It’s much of a muchness really. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♀️

Tourist, Traveller. Tomato, tomato. (Pronounced: tuh-may-toe, tuh-mah-toe.) 🍅

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