People have been travelling from place to place since ancient times. Nomadic people moved about to graze their livestock. Later people traveled to trade, or to seek their fortunes in gold rushes, and millions emigrated to other countries to escape persecution or to seek better lives. Apart from a few historical examples, tourism – travelling for pleasure is relatively modern idea. Today people spend nearly $1000 billion a year on tourism.
Top Tourist Countries :
From the year 2005 one in every eight people in the world traveled as tourists to another country – a total of 806 million. Of these, almost half visited the top ten destinations below. By the year 2020 the number of international tourists is likely to more than double to 1.5 billion.
S.No Country Visitors % of world total
1 France 79,100,000 9.3
2 Spain 58,500,000 6.9
3 USA 51,100,000 6
4 China 49,600,000 5.9
5 Italy 41,100,000 4.9
6 UK 30,700,000 3.6
7 Germany 23,600,000 2.8
8 Mexico 21,400,000 2.5
9 Austria 20,300,000 2.4
10 Russia 20,200,000 2.4
Top 10 Total 395,600,000 100
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The enlightenment period was full of social and intellectual growth. This time period changed the way people thought of the world and exposed the world to different cultures. It brought the world into several revolutions that will later contribute to great change for the modern world. Travel was significant during the enlightenment due to the enlightenment ideas that knowledge and information was gained through experience. In order for the people to get a better understanding of the world and gain information about other cultures, they had to travel to these people. During this era and time period of the enlightenment, travel was significant in order to get a quality and endless education. Denis Diderot shows the significance that travel did
...rding the importation of food products and live animals, other organisms which carry bacteria. In a world governed by international relations, travel is a large part of today’s society. The leisure and significance of world travel is unlikely to depreciate.
People have many definitions of the word “traveling”, but Dictionary.com states that traveling is defined as “to move or go from one place or point to another”. This is how Suzanne Berne refers to traveling also. “Traveling Close, Very Close, To Home” is a book written by Berne and in the book she gives many examples about people traveling. The main idea of the book is to explain no matter if we travel far or travel close, we all travel at some points in our life even if we our wandering off in our own little world. Berne then goes on to talk about people and their travels in life with examples and descriptions. Berne’s biggest statement about traveling though, is “while some believe traveling means going far away - imagining a trip to Bangkok
• Longer term, all out tourism utilization is gauge to reach $110.5 billion in 2020
During the Romanesque period, pilgrims began to travel in order to expand their social, economic, and artisan life in Europe, as well as see a world beyond their own. Traveling gave pilgrims the opportunity to see public displays of art, moral teachings, and Christian doctrine. Travel sights included sights like Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela, however local sighs were particularly better favored. Throughout these ventures travelers could see relics of local saints, as well as beginning projects made to capture the attention of travelers.
When people are asked why the travel the general answer is to experience a life different from their own. An escape from a person's normal life and to experience anew. So why when people travel do they live a more lavish life but one that is completely obtainable in their hometown. They don't experience anything different, they don't open themselves up to world and be in a new culture. Although some people share a different reason of traveling. To travel to learn and understand other cultures, to learn about themselves and what they are doing in this world. So how true is this, that when traveling to other cultures and regions it allows the traveller to experience new cultures, expand your knowledge, and learn about yourself.
Anyone who loves travelling the world, fashion, cheese or wines must visit France since it's one of the world's top visited places of all times. Can you believe that over 82 million foreign tourists visit France on a yearly basis?
It is well known that travelling is a beneficial activity for people as it helps to open our minds, learn what characterizes and differentiates one country, culture or civilization from another but, more importantly, it leads people to a development of a brand-new and more mature conception of the world as well as a new outlook on life.
Tourism has become much more prevalent in recent times, due in large part to the increasing human population of the earth and the increasing leisure time and dis...
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”- Danny Kaye. For many, living in the same hometown all throughout childhood to adulthood can hold back new ideas of perspectives or growth in life. One cannot be culturally influenced of the outside world by living at home. Being trapped in one location can limit the mind from becoming wiser and opened by surroundings. Thankfully, planes, cars, trains, busses, and boats exist to transport to fresh locations close or afar. Traveling to new settings and atmospheres include different cultures and customs that could be different from the boring hometown. Exploring the world can gain new knowledge about life and different values others admire. For example, living in America, money is a pretty high
For us today, travel is a matter of hopping on to an express bus or an aeroplane, depending on the distances involved. London is only a few hours away and the moon is not unreachable. In the days of my parents’ youth, travel was a great event. Most people never moved more than fifty miles from their place of birth all their lives. So only a few adventurous people bother to travel at all. Even for these few, elaborate preparations were needed for the months of
Traveling is part of the human experience; people have been traveling since the beginning of time. However, the reasons for traveling have changed over time. If initially the human traveling was influenced by the primary needs and necessities, it eventually evolved to where all individuals, not only the ones in higher classes, travel for pleasure. In recent years, many people are describing themselves on social media as world travelers. They have nice crafted social media profiles with beautiful pictures from the places they travel too. Numerous of this people are millennials, who make a priority of taking few trips every year. However, there is something different about their trips, from the reason for traveling,
When people travel to a destination, they sure have some motivation to motivate them to make the decision. ‘Motivation’ is the key term that will make the tourist to consider the reason to travel around. During the decision making process, people will consider some of the reasons before they confirm travel to a destination. The research that has conducted in The Netherland found out a remarkably high propensity to travel, 70% of the populations are taking one holiday per year and 24% was taking two holidays per year for holiday. Some of the people will affect their decision making by looking at destination image or some of the impact advertising. On the internet, business people will use image and advertising to attract tourist to travel to the destination by using image that they edit before. This is part of the marketing to promote their country to tourist. For family traveler, they will consider the distance and transportation travel to the destination. When go for travel, tourist will bring the whole family to travel. Then, they will consider old people who travel long journey are very hard for them. If one of the family members are senior citizen, they need to consider their healthy. Some of the senior citizen cannot take long journey, such as they have sickness. Bring children go for holiday also need to be consider. Some of the children will afraid of the highest in the plane, so they will feel uncomfortable. There is plenty of reason need to consider before making any decision to travel. For understanding tourist motivation and decision making is for two main reason, planning consideration and economic consideration. (Page & Connell, 2009) Before the tourist travel to a destination, they need to think about culture, climat...
During the past few decades, traveling has greatly increased. Purposes of travel vary, some travel for business, some for leisure,
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