"The lure of aspirational travel

People love to read about expensive resorts and impossibly dear travel accessories because they're exciting to contemplate. In this respect, they fulfill a function not a million miles from pornography. And like porn, they're also a lot of fun. The problem is that just as pornography does not provide a good map for most human relations, aspirational travel does not offer a useable guide for most forms of travel. Worse yet, aspirational travel often comes to cloud impressions of travel and actually convince many, many people that travel is an endeavor that can only be engaged at unmanageably high price points." http://www.gadling.com/2010/12/06/the-gadling-budget-travel-...

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Définition de "aspirational" : selon Robert&Collins : qui fait chic; selon Reverso (http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/anglais-cobuild/aspirational... : If you describe a product as aspirational, you mean that it is bought or enjoyed by people who have strong hopes of moving to a higher social class. (JOURNALISM)
Fine music, particularly opera, has become aspirational, like fine wine or foreign travel.