The traveler/tourist distinction is a bit blah, but was struck by the similiarity of your statement with the below, in particular the "unknown" and "expectant" remarks:

"For historian Daniel Boorstin, the lemming-like, slavish adherence to tourism's rules and patterns maps out the differentiation between 'travel' and 'tourism,' traveler and tourist. Travel, argues Boorstin, is the journey into the unknown, a sometimes dangerous ordeal with no guarantees but many promises. Tourism, by contrast, is a different state of mind, expectant of an 'antiseptic, pleasant, relaxing, comfortable experience.' 'We go more and more where we expect to go. We get money-back guarantees that we will see what we expect to see.... We look into a mirror instead of out a window, and we see only ourselves.'"

From Larry Krotz's Tourists

Thanks for that! Eventually I would like to read Boorstin's The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, from which his famous quotes on travel and tourism come.