From the crystal-clear water of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador to the jewel colored cities of Cape Town, South Africa, Travel and Leisure takes you on a worldwide adventure through the pages of its magazine. Travel and Leisure is a magazine geared towards travelers who want travel tips, news, and information about thrilling destinations around the world. The magazine targets wealthier, educated couples who are older or retired and have a lot of free time to travel. Travel and Leisure successfully appeals to its target audience by creating an informative tone with the use of descriptive language along with vibrant images. Travel and Leisure uses written aspects like word choice to reel in the target audience. The digital magazine does an exceptional job in presenting its information to viewers in a unique way by using elaborate word choice which creates an informational tone. The magazine describes itself as a “one-stop resource for sophisticated travelers who crave travel tips.” Words like “sophisticated” supports the idea that the audience is educated. The article “The World’s Most Colorful Cities” talks about cities around the world that are colored and explains the historical background and significance of the colors. It includes history of cities like Jaipur in India, which “got a coat of pink paint in the 19th-century when India was still a British Colony. To honor the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, the local leader dyed Jodhpur with the hue traditionally
Travel literature plays a significant role in literature in the present scenario. Travel literature as a genre developed from 16th century. It gained wide recognition from 18th century onwards. This article ‘William Darlymple: A Travel Writer’ is divided into six parts including Introduction and conclusion. It explains the significance of travel literature briefly in ‘Introduction’ and then explains about the importance of travel literature in India. Slowly, the article penetrates into the subject taking William Darlymple as an example of travel writer giving brief interpretation about his book ‘The Age of Kali’. This article also speaks few draw backs in Darlymple’s narration and concludes.
The average vacation brochure presents images of sandy beaches, luxury hotels, massages at spas and leisurely dinners. Traveler's recline in a world insulated from local cultures with rest and relaxation being their focus. On the other hand, adventure travel often entails adrenalin spiked, curiosity driven activities that test personal endurance with peaceful interludes embracing nature and learning about other cultures. Adventure travel often takes participants to foreign lands, but North America's residents can visit the Four Corners Region of the United States and discover cultural and athletic adventure travel at their fingertips. They need no passport to touch a sovereign nation's rich history.
Many travel articles are presented in today’s media varying relative to their target audiences thus, there objectives to entertain, inform or sell holiday destinations. While Men’s Health and Gourmet Traveler share the similarity of having travel articles, their objectives vary relative to their target audiences. Men’s Health’s India article (June 2008) by Dugald Jellie is male orientated, for ages from mid-twenties to early forties, relatable to men with active and adventurous lifestyles. Readers can afford eight dollars ninety-nine per month on this item, however, does not categories them as wealthy. Alternatively, Gourmet Traveler’s Into the Wild article (October 2008) by Michelle Rowe is not gender orientated, for ages from twenty five
“Geography is the scientific study of where things are located on the earth’s surface and why” (Rubenstain, 2003). Leisure’s geography then is taking on where and why leisure is located. Specifically I will focused on two places as a part of our outside trips for Perspective on Leisure class. The first place we visited was The Challenge Course located on the main campus of California State University of Sacramento. Second place was The Golden 1 Center right in the center of downtown Sacramento. I will compare those two leisure places, their similarities and differences. Also it is important to look at the importance of the location where they are present. And finally, the impact on the surrounding location those places
The first question, the reason for the availability of lands for tourism, can be explained by a number of factors. For example, the simplest answer is that certain lands were designated as worth preservation or other government sanctioned protection and as such, those lands were made available to anyone who cared to travel and see them. However, there is much more to the story that simple land protection legislation.
In the last chapter, the development of outdoor leisure practices in the selected cities is in tamed with the transformations of Chinese government economic strategies. With increasing disposable money, overall increased spare time compared with Maoist era, health conscious as well as the negative consequences caused by modernization in terms of high pressure of working condition with high trade-off leisure time, psychic tensions caused by overwhelming highly increase of commodity price against the comparatively slow growth of personal income, and deteriorating urban environment, all these pave a way for necessity for an alternative way of urban living. Meanwhile, confronting with the consecutive seven years slow down growth of GDP as well as increasing expand tensions by disparities spreading from cities and rural, and from coastal and inland, this is mainly caused by both global economic crises as well as Party-State’s imbalanced economic strategies particularly on prioritizing for exportation and neglecting the importance of domestic consumption. In order to pacify the domestic tensions, sustaining its economic growth rate and maintaining its ruling legitimacy, outdoor leisure, which has the tourism characters in traveling in the remote nature beauty areas most near the rural areas as well as its sports characteristics in physical activities during the travel accompanied
Leisure / Holiday Tourism are the most common form of travel that can be defined in a board meaning. There are two main purposes that can be described as a term of Leisure / Holiday tourism which are Relaxation and Sightseeing:
From the author on the road to the cartographer behind a desk, we are united by a love of travel. In fact, a passion for travel is a prerequisite for working at Lonely Planet – it says
In this research paper, we will find out how people from other countries rate India as a tourism place. The novel The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is based on a girl who visits India in search of an endangered river named ‘Dolphin’ for a research project. When she came at a place called Sunderbans a mangrove forest which splits the West Bengal in India and Bangladesh, where she met Fokir who claimed that he saw a very rare species of dolphin in the river and agreed to help Piya in her project. They both were facing the communication problem as they both tend to speak two different languages. Then on her way in transit Piya met a guy named Kanai Dutt, a wealthy translator, and businessman who also agreed to help Piya as a translator and accompanied them to find that endangered species of dolphin.
Tourism supply can be defined as the total production of tourism goods and services in a country (Georgescu, 2017). There are four distinct elements of tourism supply as outlined below.
The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry
Tourism pattern is not steady but rather unsurprising; Butler 's life cycle model have made it simple for us to comprehend the lifecycle of traveller destination. With his, the product life cycle (PLC) of five stages which incorporate Exploration, Involvement, Development, Consolidation, Stagnation, Decline, and Rejuvenation. We will look at that how 'wellington ', ‘Bhutan ' and ‘Antarctica ' lies on the bend of PLC. Different elements have been considered to assess that how these destinations have come to the point of revival.
At the beginning of this course leisure was a topic I did not give much thought to and I felt like I did not have the time to spare to put much thought into. To me, all leisure meant was having free time to do whatever it is that I wanted to do. But after analyzing my life I noticed that I had surrounded my life with solely work and school and my “free time” was anytime I spent watching television and anytime I slept. However, after taking this course I learned that leisure meant more much than that. Now leisure to me means, as Richard Kraus states, leisure is “time which is not devoted to work or work-connected responsibilities or to other forms of discretionary or unobligated time,” (Olson et al., 2003, 12). The “time” in which Kraus
People travel to various destinations for different reasons, but the ultimate goal of most travelers, is to explore the sites of interests that they may not have seen before. Although almost everyone travels on a daily basis to go to their offices, businesses, work, or school, the trends indicate that travelling for pleasure has become a common hobby (Pooley). Travelling has evolved in many aspects, including the reasons for travelling and efficiency with which people can travel from one location to another. In this paper, the meaning of travelling to different people, changes in travelling for America ns over the years, and the way travelling for leisure came about will be discussed.
Being a beautiful country, India has become the South Asia’s most famous tourism destination. It attracts tourists from worldwide by providing them a unique tourism experience in order to cherish the unforgettable moments for the upcoming years. In India, there are a wide range of tourism options being cherished by the tourists during their vacation times. The country is found to be wildly renowned for its unique cultural and geographical features. The unique culture and geography have made India, a prominent tourist destination in the world. With perfect tourism potential, the country has copious tourist’s attractions, which captivate almost all sorts of tourists from all over the world.