Travelling can be passion to so many people but travelling can never be abhorrence to anyone. But not every one of us is privileged enough to get a chance to travel and discover the divinity that lies in travelling. Everything has changed after Covid-19 pandemic anyway. Even the full time travellers were confined to their residence for months. Even the common people had a massive change in their lives. Many people are still afraid to step out of their houses even now.
Travelling As a Hobby:
Life without travelling is life without entertainment and amusement. A monotonous life is not worth living. Travelling brings colours to our colourless life. Nature of humans is curious. This curiosity has urged people to travel for adventure and one not. Travelling is when a person moves from one place to another, be it cities or countries. Travelling is becoming more and more popular every year. One of the reasons behind this is the advanced transportation system that humans have achieved now. One can easily travel from one place to another place in comparatively less time and in a feasible manner.
Benefits Of Travelling:
Travelling helps in improving social and communication skills. You cannot travel without communicating with anyone. Hence, travelling means communication. Communications with random strangers. It can be a true exercise to the people dealing with social anxiety. People end up learning new languages for travelling.
Memories are the best thing about travelling, we create unforgettable and endless memories. There is always so much to learn from new experiences. All these help us improve and evolve our personalities.
Difference Between Travel And Tourism:
Travellers generally travel for a longer period of time than tourists. Tourism is only for the purpose of leisure where as travel can be for any purpose such as business, education, leisure etc. tourism is generally luxurious than travelling. Travel is a generic term where as tourism is a commercial term.
Sustainable travel:
We all know about how the environment is deteriorating day by day. We are facings issues of global warming and climate changes. Travelling is somewhere or the other is the reason for this loss. But if we do not take care of our environment and our mother nature. Soon we will have no places to go.
Risks of earthquakes and floods are increasing day by day. Excessive tourism is putting pressure on natural resources of every place. There is alarming amount of water shortage. Some remote places even do not have proper waste disposal system which is leading to massive amount of pollution. Large parts of jungles and forests are being chopped to make new buildings and other constructions for tourists.
Now the question arises, how do we travel in a sustainable way?
- We need to consider the most sustainable way to reach the place of destinations.
- We should shift to flights as much as possible
- We should choose economy class
- We should use the most sustainable mode of transportations even after reaching the destination
- We should start staying in locally owned accommodation.
- We should start checking the green certifications in hostels and hotels.
- We should avoid large resorts
- We should start going for camping
- We should start eating in local cafes and local restaurants
- We should start trying local cuisine
- We should start shopping for local markets.
Conclusion:
Travelling is such a vast topic that one can write books and books on it. And world itself is such a vast place that no matter how much you are travelling, you won’t be able to complete the entire the world. All in all, it is no less than a favour to be able to travel. Those who do not get a chance to travel, fail a lot of things to learn and experience in life. One must travel to take back from the normal boring dull and monotonous life and live a much exciting life for a couple of days to create magical unforgettable warm memories and lessons for life, but one must not forget to save this planet and try out a sustainable way of travelling.
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