The best travel writing has always been subjective
"It is safe to say that the lasting travel accounts are quite subjective, that -- within limits -- the more subjective they are, the more readable, the more "valuable" they are. Travelers, like novelists, learned long ago the truth of Todorov's statement of a universal law: "The best description...is the one which is not description all the way." That is, the best description is combined with, cannot really be separated from, narration, reflection, interpretation."
--Percy G. Adams, Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel