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Traveling/Tourism

What Is Traveling ?

Traveling can be viewed as a process in which an individual or group of people move from their place of resident/ country to another geographical location for purpose of leisure, fun, work, education, tour, research, business, and so on using the means of transportation like car, bicycle, motorcycle, aero plane, boats, ships, train etc. Traveling can also be viewed as an excess for a family trip or business or personal tour to view the wonders of a particular culture/ community.

One who travels often times for the purpose of pleasure, attraction, tours and recreational activities are seen as and called tourist. Tourism is similar to travel it has same similarities and purposes, but tourism is more of moving from one country to another for the purpose of acquiring historical knowledge and resources of that particular culture/ community. Traveling is fixed for a short period of time, its services is also limited to the period of time you have to spend in that community. It can affects a man’s life either positively or negatively in place of either changing who you are or how you view the world. For every place a traveler goes to he/ she always have deep experiences that tends to become part of them. In this act they tend to learn the language of the particular locality they are in, taste their delicacies, dress in their cultural attire, engage in the cultural practices of their locality, engage in traditional festivals and so on.

Traveling can also be viewed with the purpose of finding oneself and others too. To discover new amazing things making an individual to be a nomadic being.

PURPOSE OF TRAVELING

1. Relaxing and Rejuvenating: It is a process of being calm, less productive, loosened and so on. One of the vital and most important and influential purpose of traveling is relaxing because it helps divert your mind, body, soul from stress and daily activities. It gives you the room to find yourself and listen to your soul more. Traveling fosters happiness in one’s life taking every stress away, it makes one forget all burdens and daily hard-work of life activities. Relaxing can also be called The Get Away

2. Discovery: This is an act of finding out something new that has not been heard or known before. Discovery can be discovering something new or being discovered. It can also bring a non existing being or substance to existence. Traveling contributes greatly to discovery in terms of discovering new culture, food, clothing pattern, languages and so on of a particular ethnicity. It is also related to discovering oneself through finding the new you or through experiences encountered. The excess of traveling is to acquire great knowledge of a particular culture, and learn about their historical background and their various monuments that lies in the heart of the land and the people.

3. Making new friends: Traveling can not be complete without a nice and heart warming sprinkle of new friends in it. Definitely a tourist will come in contact with new people of that particular country, not only getting to meet new people you build a good and firm relationship with them. Making new friends gives room to exposure where they share new ideas and knowledge to you. Making new friends is the fun part of traveling with all the exploring, happiness, fun, giggling and laughter filled in the atmosphere along side with every day a tourist spends in his/her tourist center. New friends are very necessary to guide and give you guidelines on how to enjoy your trip. Most a times making new friends can not be permanently fixed because you get to reside there for a short period of time. Although the existence of friends brings about fantasies in exploring.

4. Creation of new skills: Traveling helps one to be skillful. Discovery leads to creation of new skill, when you discover yourself you create an excellent skill and also to restore lost skills as well. It helps make one creative and skillful releasing great ideas.

5. Business: Traveling is a great benefit for business partnership either consisting of an individual, a group of persons or an organization as a whole. People do travel individually to get away from distractions in other to achieve something great in their various business. Most a-times they travel for the sake of finding out new things,ideas, skills, knowledge, creatures and so on which help boost their business projects or plans. Most business organizations travel to another country for a general meeting.

6. Health: Health is one of the common purpose for traveling. Patients do travel from their various homes to another country for a better healthcare. This may be due to lack or poor health facilities in their country. While most women travel during childbirth to have proper treatment and delivery services.

7. Education: Traveling contributes to academics, this purpose of traveling is mostly common people move from their resident to another place to acquire knowledge or improve their intellect. Education also offers scholarships to another country to study due to the high level of academic skills of that particular country. This is one of the greatest purpose and benefits of traveling, it helps improve one’s knowledge.

BENEFITS OF TRAVELING

It helps you create memories through every experiences
It improves your social life through making friends and exploring.
It gives the room to find and yourself. It helps take stress, and daily hard work away with amazing relaxing services.
One gets to try out new amazing foods and great cuisines. Every country and culture has their different traditional food.
Traveling contributes to a healthy lifestyle through relaxing your mind and body, eating good and healthy food, being happy, listening to your body speak etc. It boosts immune system.
It lowers the threat of depression. Traveling helps lessen depression, and the risk attached to it. It stirs one’s mind away from stress, and depression with fun and recreational activities.
It gives new experiences and discovery to an individual