Now that the Alliance and Horde have reached more or less a period of peace, is there any real situations where tourism is a thing? I know Lor’themar’s and Thalryssra’s honeymoon saw them travel all across Azeroth, even Alliance cities, but can, say, Grok who works as a banker in Orgrimmar go see the sights and sounds of Borealis during his two weeks paid vacation?
I would think high-ranking diplomats like Lor’themar have options that the average banker in Orgrimmar doesn’t. I would be surprised if we’re at the stage yet where random citizens of one faction can expect to visit the other’s territory. We may get there at some point, but I doubt we are there already.
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Azeroth is not THAT modern a culture for the most part. Most normal peasants and peons don’t travel. Same pretty much goes for the merchants and craftsfolk.
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Depends on how much leisure time the average Azerothian has and how expensive it is for the average Azerothian to travel.
Sure they do. They get to go to all sorts of fun and exotic locales.
…oh, you meant on vacation.
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Oddly enough with all the religious holidays and festivals, the average peasant actually had more time off than the average American of today.
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Probably not. Tourism requires a level of comfort and ease that clearly isn’t present. It might be possible to visit for specific diplomatic or business reasons, but recreational travel isn’t likely.
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That’s also because they had to manually do a lot of stuff that we either don’t have to, can do it easier due to technology, or we just pay someone else to do it.
Just because you finished your required duties to your lord doesn’t mean the firewood is stocked up, the garden is tended, the clothes are repaired, the roof is fixed, the livestock fed, etc.
Sure, the wife and kids can do some of it, but the average peasant didn’t just sit and chill most of the time they weren’t working for their lord.
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They still had more time off than we do. Europeans in general have about two months of vacation compared to our average of two weeks or less.
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Yeah but that’s because the US labor movement barely exists lol.
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The way I see Azeroth is it is fairly modern society cosplaying as medieval.
Look, we literally have people taking vacations of self love during love is in the air and we have people going to that Dragon Isle spa. Both high end and fairly ordinary citizens.
Magic is literally capable of replacing(and sometimes being a better option) then some of our modern tech. Who needs a plane when you can just portal yourself to a destination? Guns are not the be all or end all weapon when magic armor and weapons exist that make a laughing stock of what a regular gun can do.
Farmers can use automatons that seems to have actual intelligence that even our modern AI cannot seem to truly replicate.
There are dozens of tourist in say Undermine.
Heck, Undermine even have Scalpers. A fairly modern day problem.
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Not exactly available to the average schmoe though.
Undermine is probably centuries ahead of the rest of Azeroth.
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It is literally made available to everyone in Love is in the Air.
More like everyone else is still rping medieval when thanks to both gnomish and goblin tech it is actually fairly modern.
Neither are particularly user friendly… They are both equivalent to the first year of Linux as far as adoption by anyone less than extreme gearheads, i.e. other engineers willing to take the considerable risks involved by using either tech.
The manual for the drill way to Undermine has this passage in it.
“Safety may occur.”
Thus far I havent exploded using said device. Maybe just maybe the goblins are better at covering(and more honest) with their safety disclosures then some forms of travel?
My mechano strider has managed to not go loco(which I might add was created by Geblin, a gnome who’s genius you can 100% trust) on me and my Goblin Shredder has been a useful herbalism tool. Again, I think we are past early adoption and are in fairly stable realms of mass production.
Come to tirisfal, its to die for
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lol yeah, the fact that they can maintain a portal without an eternal NPC keeping it open for literal years of the game without turning Azeroth into another Outland with so many open portals all the time, clearly shows Undermine is much more advance minus a few burn hairs. 
Tinkers and Artificers exist as literal profesion I think cities could afford some sort of arcane devices to maintain portals at this point in history tbh! Just ask the Silvermoon and Undercity Architects they literally had one connecting the 2 cities in TBC if you want to go fancy and gothic at the same time! 
It does exist but American methods of suppression and propaganda are very effective.
They want you to think it doesn’t exist, but sometimes it’s powerful enough that Capitalism needs an FDR to save it from itself.
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Azerothian tourism exists all over the place. There’s a Goblin resort in Feralas. Live is in the Air, the revamped version, takes you to resorts all over Azeroth.
This game has more resorts than I would have expected, honestly.
Back in Legion tourism from the Broken Isles was a thing as the war with the Legion cooled down.
Valdrakken seems to be a pretty hot tourist spot between the academy and the world famous spa.
Also in Legion, there was the Moon Guard survivors who talked about how after the whole thing was done they wanted to go on a trip, maybe visit Silvermoon and other places.