If you pick from the long tail at random, you're unlikely to encounter many other tourists. The "go-to" destination problem really only happens if you outsource the long-tail mining to some centralized source (e.g. popular social media posts) that ends up sending many people to the same place.
Or just pick places which are an utter pain in the arse to get to - days of surface travel by 4x4, foot, boat, ski, or canoe. Makes for far more interesting stories, too. I ended up living in one of said “I’ve heard of it but I’ve never been” places. It’s lovely. Pain in the ass to get anywhere, but if I don’t want to see people, I don’t, and those that I do see I usually chat with over a pitchfork, and walk away with a gifted sack of produce.
