Traveller or Tourist? That´s not the question

When I take my luggage and set off on a more o less long journey, what I am supposed to be: a traveller or a tourist?
Personally, I do not see the difference when I look at both terms from a present perspective. Nevertheless, there are some people who want to make a distinction between both concepts. Maybe, because they still have a romantic idea of travelling as it was in the past. I refer to travelling two or three or even more hundreds of years ago when it was not a usual activity for ordinary people. So, they may consider those travellers like brave men or women capable of overcaming difficulties and sort out oll type of problems; those who love the risk and  hanker for discovering  other cultures, other countries, other languages...Due to the lack of roads, transport, restaurants, hotels, medicins, etc. they had to find food, bed, or whatever they needed from the locals who called them travellers or explorers, - the word tourists did not exist yet.
I think that  it is for this romantic point of view why  some people want to be identified with them and be called travellers, as well.
On the other hand, tourism is  in my opinion a new concept born to name that so popular movement which is practised for millions of people all around the world and which is closely related to the concept of travelling as we understand it now. These days, travelling is easiar than it was in the past. Everybody _who can afford it, of course_ can travel around the world during a long period of time or go to the most remote lands and only  for that you are not considered a traveller as a traveller was in the past. You  need something more: the intention, the aim for which you do that. And that same intention you can have when, visiting a new country, you are called tourist. So, both terms are mixed and can not be separated. Perhaps, we are obstinated in finding a difference between two words which refer to the same person. When you  travel anywhere, you are seen as a tourist; you are a tourist anywhere because you are travelling.