> One thing I've been pondering lately is why we had such a spike in tourism. A lot of it is likely a spike in tourism in general. There are plenty of affluent

> One thing I've been pondering lately is why we had such a spike in tourism. A lot of it is likely a spike in tourism in general. There are plenty of affluent young people and air travel is cheaper than ever, so it isn't usual for people in my social circle to take 2 big trips and 4-8 smaller trips a year. To my Dad, the idea of travelling across a continent for a weekend is nuts (and he was also among the affluent young growing up). For me, that's a perfectly normal thing to casually do. For him, the thing was road trips, so he was limited to a certain geographic area. With air travel, weekends are only limited to North America with a bit of the East off the table because of the messy connections required to get there from Western Canada. He went camping to the local park and went to museums a few hours away. I visit museums thousands of Km away instead.