Seems the ancient Roman tourist wanted statues and holy sites, but no million-dollar views. On the typical tourist of Imperial Roman times, as he ascends the Acropolis in Greece:

“The view was staggeringly beautiful, too, but the visitor was less inspired by that. Like the mountaintop, it was too grand and imposing, not the kind of sweet scenery he favoured. And since the gods, too, were thought to prefer intimate settings, there was nothing ‘divine’ about sweeping vistas–they just conveyed emptiness.”
— Maxine Feifer, Tourism in History: From Imperial Rome to the Present, 1985, page 18