Re Callard on travel, lots of our ideas in the anglosphere about the benefits of travel probably come from the European Grand tour. Two points. One, they implicitly presume wealth and most importantly multiple years to travel with. Two, we can test this idea by comparing it with modern Italians and Greeks attitudes towards travel.
See also Wallace’s comment in consider the lobster that tourism is tainted by the knowledge that you’re making the place worse in all ways except economically, include his quote about tourists being like insects on a dying animal
See Kevin Kelly’s 50 years of travel tips https://kk.org/thetechnium/50-years-of-travel-tips/