You missed conversational and social signalling value. Travel is an excellent conversation topic as almost everyone has some memories that they’d love to share. Or at least I find it more interesting than most other smalltalk topics as you’re at least learning about other parts of the world. And people who have travelled a lot are seen as more adventurous.
I deliberately excluded signalling value, since usually signalling activities have a pretext of usefulness, or are founded on that pretext, and I’d like to understand it more.
Almost everyone has some [travel] memories that they’d love to share.
Why do they want to share travel memories more than other memories?
And people who have travelled a lot are seen as more adventurous.
Adventure does seem like a function of travel that’s hard to otherwise satisfy.
You missed conversational and social signalling value. Travel is an excellent conversation topic as almost everyone has some memories that they’d love to share. Or at least I find it more interesting than most other smalltalk topics as you’re at least learning about other parts of the world. And people who have travelled a lot are seen as more adventurous.
I deliberately excluded signalling value, since usually signalling activities have a pretext of usefulness, or are founded on that pretext, and I’d like to understand it more.
Why do they want to share travel memories more than other memories?
Adventure does seem like a function of travel that’s hard to otherwise satisfy.