The WWW is like a magic carpet for armchair tourists.  Travel guides are delivered to your desk in seconds, instead of weeks.  Photographs by the hundreds can be found with a brief search. Transportation and lodging options are rolled out in minutes, and can be booked with a credit card and a few mouse clicks.

What's not to love? Well, there are just too many choices, for one thing!

But there is also the homogenization of experience, pushing us to desire ever-more-exotic and expensive destinations. One Caribbean island looks much like another, so let's go to Antarctica this year!

If Earth doesn't have enough to interest you, you can now travel into orbit around it, if you have the means.  How much longer before travel to the moon and back becomes routine?