One can never compare anything a yid does – even a mundane act as eating or sleeping – to things done a goy.
Therefore one cannot make a comparison between a goyishe chuga and anything done by yidden.
Additionally the yidden who travel are basing themselves on the teachings of a gadol – R’ Nachman, and have included many Gedoilei Yisoel – including R’ yaakov Meir Shechter and R’ Tzvi Cheshin shlit”a