According to your logic, 30% of words would satisfy this property.

1. Accordion
2. Antenna
3. Banana
4. Character
5. Deceived
6. Elephant
7. Greening
8. Harbinger
9. Insignia
10. Knowledge

GPT-4, prompt: “List 10 words that start and end with the same letter but are not palindromes.”

Even without the palindrome condition, it got some of these and a few palindromes.

While it can be somewhat cynical to play out environmental vs social issues, I agree with the scepticism here.

Also exposure to the country. Just driving through it (or sitting in an all-exclusive resort for that matter) is not what I consider travelling/exploring.