It goes without saying that traveling plays an immeasurably essential role in every person’s life. Its positive impact on personality, emotions, and even general health condition is impossible to deny. Traditionally, people have well-established life perspectives and belief systems before traveling. However, once they start to explore unfamiliar territories, they may change their attitudes to multiple aspects of life, such as family life, social life, leisure life, and cultural life (Uysal 2016).
Traveling expands people’s perspectives and makes them more culturally sensitive. Despite the fact that a prevalent number of people across the globe live in multicultural societies, they do not notice or obey other cultures. However, traveling obliged individuals to respect automatically the culture of any country where they arrive. For instance, in Arabic countries, polite and respectful tourists will not drink or eat outside in the daytime during Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. In other words, traveling teaches people that there are multiple cultures all over the world, and the cultural peculiarities of other communities should be considered as well.
Traveling may substantively improve the life quality of people regardless of their age. According to the research conducted by Kim et al. (2015), traveling has a highly positive impact on elderly tourists’ well-being. In general, traveling implies leisure life satisfaction, emotional involvement, new experience, and the improvement of overall life quality (Passafaro et al. 2015). In addition, constant traveling worldwide contributes to the person’s positive development of personality and contributes to his or her self-respect, tolerance, and the ability to feel excitement, empathy, and compassion.
Traveling may be regarded as a perfect way to develop professional and personal skills. People who visit multiple countries are traditionally familiar with foreign languages or speak them fluently. In addition, the exploration of other countries frequently requires help from local citizens. In their journeys, experienced travelers try to become acquainted with native residents. It goes without saying that this practice substantively develops their communication skills.
It goes without saying that traveling may be connected with particular challenges. Adaptation to new places and the change of routine is complicated for a substantial number of people. However, the decision of being spontaneous will be regarded as less intimidating over time. In general, self-confidence, cultural sensitivity, and new knowledge received from traveling may incomparably change any person’s life.
Works Cited
Kim, Hyelin, Eunju Woo and Muzaffer Uysal. 2015. “Tourism Experience and Quality of Life Among Elderly Tourists.”Tourism Management 46: 465-476.
Passafaro, Paola, Francesca Cini, Lorenzo Boi, Michela D’Angelo, Maria Sofia Heering, Laura Luchetti, Armando Mancini, Valentina Martemucci, Giulia Pacella, Fabio Patrizi et al. 2015. “The “Sustainable Tourist”: Values, Attitudes, and Personality Traits.”Tourism and Hospitality Research 15 (4): 225-239.
Uysal, Muzaffer, M. Joseph Sirgy, Eunju Woo and Hyelin (Lina) Kim. 2016. “Quality of life (QOL) and Well-Being Research in Tourism.”Tourism Management 53: 244-261.