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mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2004-10-19 21:21:00    Hi Brit! Best post ever, Brit! Great choice of words. How do you do this? ;-) LOL Well around here (Europe, Switzerland) the views about travellers and tourists are quite strong. A tourist never stays in a Backpacker a traveller is always looking for cheap accomodation and food because he is travelling long times and needs to save money.... If you call a traveller a tourist he would get angry... We could also determine it by the travel guide they use: Traveller: Lonely Planet, Guide du Routard, Reise Know How, .... Tourist: no guide at all, ADAC, Micheling Guide Vert, Du Mont Martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   bootlegga Premium account Joined: Jul 04 Points: 15194 Posts: 124 Posted: 2004-10-19 21:42:00    Well, I have to agree with Martin on this one. I think travelling is a state of mind thing, whereas tourism is what can I do for my summer holidays. I consider myself a traveller, and want to continue doing it until I'm in a pinebox 6 feet under. I search for good deals, travel out of season, stay in smaller hotels and look for those out of the way places to visit. An example is when I was in Beijing. Instead of going to Badaling with all the other tour buses and hordes of people, I took a cab halway across the city to the hostel and joined a group of foreigners on a small bus that took 2.5 hours to get to Simatai, which IMHO was a lot better than the touristy part with handrails and shopping malls. If I was a tourist, I'd be more interested in all-inclusive packages and 'doing what everyone else does'. No thanks! Unfortunately, I think that as we get older, many of us become tourists, not because we want to, but because we have jobs, families, etc that complicate staying in dives and playing it by ear. --- "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." – Mark Twain Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bootlegga   britman Premium account Joined: Apr 04 Points: 17984 Posts: 83 Posted: 2004-10-20 04:08:00    Hi Bootlegga and all you other travelling Globo tourists ;-), Travelling is a state of mind! So is touring. Both imply that you move about to see new places and what is there. Of course you are right in what you say about depending upon your station in life and basically how much you can afford to spend at that point in your life. Many times recently I have stayed in "Hotels" where I have paid around $3 per night and had satisfactory clean accommodation and a good nights sleep - then in the same trip treated myself to a night in a five star (at a discounted internet rate of course). So I do not think that the cost element differentiates between a traveller and a tourist. I really think that the traveller arranges and does things by himself and the tourist is packaged and guided by agent(s). Having said that I have just booked a deal to tour Sri Lanka at a bargain price with a local agent over the internet......now I do consider myself to be a traveller, despite my middle age <laughing here>...but here I am doing a touristy thing because it is a bargain! The agent is arranging all the hotels the itinerary even (I have changed it 3 times already though - and we haven't arrived yet) and when we get there I shall change it many times to see where and what we want to see. However, I will be guided by him – it is his country and he knows it best! So whether I am a tourist or a traveller I don’t give a four lettered word for! I am going to do what I have done for 40 years – go to a new place with an open mind and explore it to bits. I shall photograph it and write about it and come back home and publish it on GLOBO and bore you all to bits with my travels…or is it to be a holiday? Now there is another difference – A tourist takes HOLIDAYS/VACATIONS a traveller doesn’t!! Keep up the banter fellow Globo’s be you travellers or tourists– it’s great to take part in this bit of fun! Cheers, Brit --- Cheers! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact britman   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2004-10-23 18:24:00    Hi GLOBO's When reading your posts, I come to the conclusion that the time factor seems to be the most important part for you. I don't agree there, because when you are working and only having holiday breaks you haven't got enough time to travel.... I still think that you can only spend a week somewhere and be a traveller and no tourist ;-) <hehehe> Thats what I did for instance in february this year booked a hotel through the internet on the coast in Belgium for a week. Explored the rich region and ate delicious food (mussels and fries) and traveled leisurely back through France. Stayed where it looked nice and moved on whenever we felt like it. When the weather eventually turned bad we headed home .... Two weeks of nice travelling ;-) Mortimer --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   britman Premium account Joined: Apr 04 Points: 17984 Posts: 83 Posted: 2004-10-23 18:40:00    Hi Martin and fellow Globo's Ive got it! Plain and simple - the answer! Do you travel/holiday/tour with a backpack/rucksack or a suitcase? The former are travellers - the later (with suitcases) are tourists! But - I carry a holdall - ? Keep smiling whilst you tour/travel/journey/perambulate et al!! Cheers Brit --- Cheers! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact britman   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2004-10-23 18:54:00    Hi GLOBO's Not really the style of the suitcase makes it, it's got more to do how much it weighs. I've got some friends that work at the check in office at our local train station... I happened to meet them when checking in for our 20 days in China... They were also checking in for 2 weeks of beach life in cuba. We had our backpack/rucksack with 18 Kilogramms for the two of us, The others had each 2 suitcases with 20 Kilogramms per person... These are the real differences ;-) --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   Page: 1 2