If it wasn't sad, it would have been funny to me when an acquaintance said: "Why would I travel somewhere, when everything is on Google Earth".
I don't live in a virtual world. When I want to touch, see or smell something, I do it live.
And related to the travel experience, there is a verse of a song by a famous author, which I often quote when someone mentions a tour with Google Earth or Instagram vlogs "They will tell you about the voyage, those who did not raise the anchor..."