12 Insightful Illustrations To Show The Differences Between A Tourist And A Traveller

While many of us use the words “tourist” and “Traveller” in the same context, there is a vast difference between the two. Which exactly are you? Tourists are typical people who can be spotted clicking selfies in front of the pyramid or the Taj Mahal while a traveller will be taking pictures of it. It isn’t that you can’t be both where you can enjoy a trip with family as a tourist and then savor the culture of a place as a traveller the next. If you own a selfie stick and love staying in posh hotels, then you most probably are a tourist.

1Tourist or traveller

What sets a traveller apart is the definition of the experience. While tourists are busy enjoying themselves in a new location, the traveller enjoys the location itself, the sights and sounds of streets, marketplaces and local areas. A traveller soaks in the culture and history of a place hiking to inaccessible areas and sleeping in an atmosphere that gives one the ethnic experience. Travellers discover and explore. These 12 images to define the difference between a traveller and a tourist is enlightening and humorously interesting too.

2Directions: do you follow signs or get adventurous

A tourist doesn’t want to waste time getting to a location. It will be either by a cab or tourist taxi or simply follow the street signs; a traveller of course would take the road less travelled, getting adventurous in the bargain and taking an unknown path just to see where it leads you too.

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3Selfie or camera

A tourist as mentioned will be seen taking selfies in almost every place they go. Selfies with family, with friends with the camel near the pyramids, with locales and just about everything that fits in a cellphone camera frame. A traveller will take aesthetic shots of a monument, scenery, interesting sights and sounds, the street and market life all because she may be wanting to integrate the photographs in a travelogue or for the experience and memories or I could be for a photo blog too.

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4Travel in a herd or alone

For a tourist, it’s all about fun, fun and more fun. Moreover for a tourist, fun wouldn’t be travelling alone so it’s all about a group because you can’t really party alone can you? A traveller on the other hand will always invariably travel alone or at the most with a partner. There’s no partying or group events and activity here.

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