Tourism and Travel: Review of The Benefits

Benefits of travelling (essay)

There is nothing quite like traveling, like seeing a new place for the first time or returning to a favorite one. People of all ages, from all around the world, go to foreign places for different reasons – mainly, for work, family, and leisure. Whether by plane, train, ship or by automobile, traveling is generally a pleasurable experience, at least for the people who can financially afford comfortable and safe methods of travel. But it has more benefits than satisfying one’s need to make money, like, for example, to see loved ones and enjoy oneself on vacation. There are other benefits of traveling worth mentioning in this travel review essay.

One of the main benefits of travelling is to find and keep inner balance. People often are too wrapped up into their daily lives, normally following the same routine – work, eat and sleep. Sometimes due to a lot of working people stop getting creative and stop thinking about new ideas and go around the same old ones. This affects their health, happiness and their future. Travelling helps people to go back in time, identify their mistakes, ponder upon them and then come back fresh with a fresh outlook, new zeal and better determination. Travelling will help them relax and reenergize so that they can go to work fresh and full of new ideas.

Travelling helps us to get to know more and more people, their language, lifestyle, culture, food habits and many more things you cannot count. This is how one comes to know about the dynamism which is present around the globe. Travelling opens one’s mind and helps to think fresh and out of the box.

There is a saying that “Away from home, one comes to understand what home actually is and what it means”. People also travel to go back home and relive their memories which were made there. Going back home helps in getting knowledge about the new innovations and developments which have taken place there. Going back home also makes you realize that how different your native place is with respect to the place you currently live in. This changes how one feels about his/her native land, it could be negative or positive.

The best part about travelling which I like is that you get out of your comfort zone and try new things. Travelling helps us to live the lives of the locals there and experience some things which you would have never experienced in your regular life. You get to live a life outside your original one. One also gets to experience some of the most blissful experiences like sky diving, bungee jumping and many other adventure sports. For me travelling is full about adventure and fun. The best way to experience both is to go on an unplanned trip and that too with your friends. You will have the greatest time of your life.

Another reason to travel more is that it helps getting us healthier. Visiting places like Nainital, Darjeeling, Shillong, Panchmari, Goa, Kovalam, Ooty, etc. can have tremendous effect on our physical and mental health. The beauty and cold of the hills, the charm of the valleys, the chirping of birds, the song of the rivers, the howling of animals, pleasant air, quiet places, etc., can heal many of our mental and physical problems.

Finally, travelling also promotes tourism which is very good for the economy of the country as well as the economy of the world as a whole. Tourism contributes to the complete growth and development of the economy. One it brings numerous economic value and benefits to the economy. Secondly it helps the country to build its brand value, image and identity.

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