A problem is everyone now goes to the big teams, theme parks, national parts etc, the second tier is unloved. Our local baseball team closed down because no one turned up, where everyone follows MLB. Similarly Yellowstone is overcrowded but the campground I used to go to as a kid is empty.
I have to wonder how much of it is this. My father and grandfather spoke of going camping at their favourite regional camping spots. When I went to university however, I had similar vacation experiences to people from all over the country as we all went to Disney and we all went to Vancouver and we all went Banff.
The vacation/leisure experience is homogenizing for the middle class and decreasingly local.
Also a bit less exciting to travel a small distance because of places getting more similar over time. It used to be you could travel a short distance and hit a new accent, and slightly different food.
It's definitely an aspect - travel including air travel is so cheap now that people go to the "big spots" - people likely can't even name the closer small areas.
