Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
Luxury is a state of mind.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.