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To Travel means to Suffer

I once read on one of my transport studies literature that 'to travel' means 'to suffer'. That's why some of the experts on this field said that travel is a derived demand, you don't travel for the sake of the travel itself, which means it is something you do in order to get to another accomplishment at the end of the journey. Well, the statement is debatable (even until now they're still arguing about this), whether travel itself could be by its own sake or not. But as for sightseeing, maybe the nature of travel as a derived demand can be partly true and partly not. Since being a tourist means you enjoy every single journey you take, then you must say that it's obviously not derived. Nevertheless, there are still times when you feel lost between one spot to another, that you don't actually get why are you there. That's when the derived demand theory works. You can't simply said that you 'enjoyed' every single part of your journey. Th...