TRAVELLING IS A PRIVILEGE

by Nithya Sekar

Travelling is a movement of people from one place to another place between distance
geographical locations. It is not just moving in one direction or going from one place
to another place. It does implies moving away or going away from one place and
ending in another, while having some meaningful experiences in between. People are
travelling by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or any other
transportation. Travelling also can be done with or without luggage and can be done
one way or round trip.

The start of new decade has contributes widest opportunity for every travellers.
Social networks had made massive changes on people’s travelling trends. People who
travel a lot do always share their photos, posts and stories in the social networks.
These posts have captivated people’s attention on their travelling diaries. This made
huge impact on the other users to open a new track for themselves to travel. According
to the research, social medias can significantly travel plans. In fact, 52% Facebook
report friends’ photos have inspired travel plans. In addition, 55% of people like social
media pages related to trips they are planning.

Widest usage of social networks and travelling review pages help people to plan
variety of destinations to explore. People do prefer places that inherent or exhibit
natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering
leisure and amusement.

The travelling destinations depends on people’s own preference like where they
want to go, what activities they like, they like to go with friends or family. Traditional
tourist destinations are like beaches, tropical island resort, hiking and camping in
National Parks, mountains, deserts and forests. These are places where people go for
summer vacations.

Besides that, people also do travel to places to visit tourist attractions such as
historical places, monuments, ancient temples, castle, libraries, former prisons,
museums or art galleries. People who have kids also plan their travelling to the
destinations like theme parks, carnivals, zoos, Aquaria and botanical gardens as well.
It is clear that, many beautiful places had been revealed through the travels and the
travelling culture is increasing day by day to range over all these beautiful
destinations.

Moreover, travelling also had become easier and effortless than we think in this
contemporary world. It can be local or foreign travels. Millions of people are
travelling easily at their own country and foreign countries. This this because
travelling turned into an essential part of modern life.

Technologies and many facilities made exponential increase in number of

travellers every day. Travellers also found that travelling is easier to reach their aimed
destinations. Facilities and technologies do full-fill people’s requirement in travelling
because they are travelling for purposes like work, business meeting, visiting friends
or family and leisure too.

Travellers these days, prefer making their customized itenary and organising
everything by themselves. In a simple way, we can say that technology and
communication have simplified our lives. Firstly, the increased connectivity has made
people to travel easily. Few years ago, it was quite inaccessible to reach different
locations around the world. The duration was longer and only few flights were there.
Now, research and development by people helped travelling industries to come up
sophisticated flights, trains, ships and other transportations. These sophisticated
technologies earned travellers’ trust on travelling to explore places with ease.

Travelling is also increasing each second with easy bookings in internet. People
can book flight, accommodation and even desired activities with the help of
technology. One click in the internet helps us to show the best rates of flights and
accommodations. Some travelling platforms also shows best deals according to our
requirements and travelling budget. E-tickets and mobile check-ins are most
preferable methods instead of bringing printed tickets or documents that cause
troubles.

GPS or Global Positioning System also a great blessing for every traveller to
travel efficiently. Those days people who wants travel, need to study and understand
a map before travelling to specified destination. Now applications like Google Maps
and Waze are really convenient for travellers to travel without getting lost.
 Quick planning also helps travellers to start their travelling smoothly. Again
here, internet played a massive role. By sitting at the any corner of the world, we can
explore any destination that we are going to travel to. A destination’s climate, food,
the geographical details, and other important details through internet can be collected.

There is no doubt that many current facilities helped people to travel a lot but
the reason to start travelling plans are so intensed. People are willing to travel from any
place to any place because there are many benefits and reasons behind it. Solo travellers
and back-pack travellers are dare enough to voyage all over the globe. The reason why
people love to travel are varied.

People are craving for incredible adventures in their life. When social medias
and networks are projecting the beauty around the world, people taking initiatives to
travel and experience the adventures. Exciting experiences like exploring, skydiving,
mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting and extreme sports are the best souvenirs
that people gain through travelling.

Learning is one of the strongest reason why people to travel. Discovering new
places by travelling also giving something unfamiliar and new skills or knowledge.
Learning new language, customs, cultures, people and deeper spirituality can be only
gained through travelling. The memories and experiences are giving are giving deeper
sense of satisfaction.

Travel also put our life in perspective. Some people have grown up with luxury
life styles and all comforts. Travelling to a developing countries became an eye –
opening and put our own life in perspective. Every facilities and lifestyles that we are
experiencing might not available for others based where they are living. By realizing
this, we will come away with new appreciation for everything we have in our life.

To conclude, travelling is the biggest pleasure for a person at any age. Let’s not
be a travel brag in social medias to attract others. Sincere travels brings real meaning
for life.

(1005 words)
 References

Books

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Magazine

Team Wanderlust. (2019). The top travel trends for 2020, revealed by Wanderlust’s
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