What is the significance of the title?

The title ‘The Accidental Tourist’ lays stress on the accidental nature of Bill Bryson who was a frequent flyer. He travelled a lot to different parts of the world. He always met some kind of an accident on the way in the aeroplane. Once he bent over to tie his shoe lace and someone sitting on the seat ahead of him threw his seat back into full stretch. And that was when he found himself held helplessly in the ‘crash position’. He had to scratch the leg of the man sitting next to him to get himself freed. On another incident, he threw a soft drink onto the lap of a lady who was sitting beside him. The lady got very annoyed with him. Then the flight attendant cleaned up the mess and brought him another drink.
In one more incident, his lips, gum, mouth, chin, tongue, and teeth had navy blue ink on them as he had been chewing the end of his pen that was leaking.
He was always prone to accidents. He always used to forget his room number and was in a habit of going to the hotel desk to enquire about it. He was careless that when the food was delivered on planes, his wife asked his children to take the lids off the food for him to avoid any accident. While travelling alone, he did not eat, drink or tie his shoelaces. Still he travelled a lot but was accident-prone.

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