Who benefits from this idea that the influence of companions would always be a subcategory of destination selection?
This narration seems to ignore situations where the destination is already imposed by inevitable constraints, making this factor secondary.
When my sister-in-law had to urgently travel to Munich for a surgical operation, no one asked her opinion about the city, let alone the opinion of her travel companions.
The choice of destination was not a discussion, but a medical obligation, period.