The most appealing travel destinations are probably places that frequently feature in movies. Watching a movie is a more heightened emotional experience, so when it comes to actually living in the places you've experienced in the cinema, you feel the excitement 2 fold. The first layer obviously being that you're somewhere very different from home and the second layer being that you're living something that used to only exist in your imagination.
Travelling is also one of the farthest places you can be from your parents and, therefore, the most independent you can be. This is probably why so many people go on a 'gap' year to a far away country after finishing year 12.
Furthermore, being in a foreign country enables you to represent the country that you came from, not in an annoying school expectations kind of way, but more in an alien from outer space way. If you go to a country that doesn't speak your language, you become able to speak 'another' language without having learned anything but your mother tongue. Depending on your home country, you also get tarred with all the good or bad associations your country attracts, so you're automatically a person of interest in foreigner's eyes.
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