Introduction
Travelling has always been a matter of personal approach, different tastes and perceptions. On this very reason, people express the most diversified opinions concerning travelling including travelling around the world. Nowadays, the argument concerning the opinion that international travelling is over-rated appears to be rather heated. A great number of varied attitudes can be subdivided into the two categories of those who agree that international travelling is really over-rated, and those who oppose such statement. In the following paper, an effort to observe the two above-mentioned points of view on international travelling and to evaluate the situation occurring in this field will be made. Overall, after the evaluating the facts, it appears that those who support the idea concerning international travelling being over-rated seem to be right.
People’s perceptions concerning travelling in general
First of all, speaking about international travelling and its value, people’s attitudes to travelling in general is to be examined. The main point to be addressed with regards to this topic is the very fact that people percept different situations in different way. In addition, people may face different situations in the same place which will shape their way of thinking in different ways as time and case are important pointers affecting people’s minds and hearts. Travelers have different attitudes to different things shaped on the basis of their cultural background, family values, goals in life, personal preferences, and even the level of their mental power. One more serious field of concerns is related to the fact the world is getting very homogeneous on the reason of the process of globalization. In our globalized reality, countries and cities with their buildings, transportation system, services, local food and a whole bunch of the other parameters look more and more similar. People’s cultures also have an unfrequented tendency to assimilate.
The position of the proponents of the idea that international traveling is over-rated
Next, evaluating the position of the proponents of the idea that international travelling is over-rated it seems that the main reason for their attitudes is the quality of services offered. Many people supporting this party of the argument personally faced with the cases of utterly bad service along with the cases of artificial raising the prices for the goods and services which are of much lower level than it is expected. Among such people frequent are the stories describing terrible service in transport, hotels and air-ports.
The position of the opponents of the idea that international travelling is over-rated
Further, with regards to the position of the opponents of the idea that international travelling is over-rated, it appears that people belonging to this party in the argument really enjoy what they see during their international trips. The people belonging to this category are the excited visitors of varied destinations who have the most positive feedbacks on what they saw, how much they paid for the offered goods and services, and the impressions which are related to the level of hospitality shown by the local people.
My opinion concerning the issue under consideration
Finally, reflecting on the position expressed by the two parties in this argument, I would support the position by the proponents of the idea that international travelling is over-rated. I’d rather agree with them on the reason of what is stated by numerous people who complain about their utterly negative experiences in the air-ports, on the roads, and in the hotels. It is much easier to find feedbacks by people who faced some significant problems in varied areas related to international traveling than those who enjoyed them to the full extent. In addition, the process of constant and universal globalization which results into making different lands with their culture, traditions and services very similar to each other makes the situation even more obvious. In this vein, the expectations by a certain traveler who dreams to see different countries and enjoy warm and unusual mentality of its population come to see that the local people are also very much adherent to the global western culture, and do not differ from those fellow citizens of the person in his/her home-town and home-country.
Conclusion
Concluding on all the information related above, it should be stated that the issue of whether international traveling is over-rated or not is rather complicated and ambiguous one. This tendency can be explained by the fact that people have different tastes, opinions and perceptions. This, in turn, often causes the situations in which one person may feel that everything is going great, and the other may feel that things are getting worse than it can be possibly expected. Still, the cases when international travelling became a real source of discouragement and unhappiness by travelers are very frequent. It results into the situation when people begin to think that it was a better idea for them to stay home or to travel around their own country rather than going abroad. The other important point is in the process of constant and universal globalization which results into making different lands with their culture, traditions and services very similar to each other. In this vein, the expectations by a certain traveler who dreams to see different countries and enjoy their unusual atmosphere are not put into reality.