Research provides an insightful profile of the elite tourist as one who travels with a self-contained mentality and is always self-contained. He [/she] might be an antiquarian, a naturalist, or an adventurer visiting locations that few people visit or are unfamiliar with. Because he [/she] is a snob by nature and a nonconformist, if not eccentric, his [/her] pleasure of the location is lessened as visitor traffic increases.
