Youth Tourism
Introduction
Young people travel inside the country and abroad on holiday, to visit friends, to study, to understand various cultures as well as for adventure and relaxation. Psychologists look upon youth travel as part of their transition to adulthood. Domestic youth travel is regarded as an extension of the education process familiarizing young people with their country. There is no widely accepted definition of the youth travel market segment. This lack of clarity contributes to the difficulty in measuring its size and characteristics.
Definition of Youth Tourism market Youth travelers are recognized today as valuable visitors who can, not only make an important economic
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Travelling provides a way for creating relationships and experiencing new cultures, while escaping the hardships of daily life.
Throwing oneself into an entirely different culture for a few weeks a year, is one of the most intellectually gratifying things I have come to experience. It exposed me to the fact that there is more to life than meets the eye. Accepting its complexity is almost as important as understanding what makes it complex. My visits to Poland have opened my one dimensional mindset, and allowed for more complicated reasoning. Traveling also forces an individual into strange situations they are unaccustomed to, and shows that not everything can be learned in a classroom. It teaches politics, economy, history, geography and less general things such as the ability to explore, grow, and make mistakes. They are left with the satisfaction of doing things they never knew they could
In Jeff Goins article 3 reasons to travel while you’re young he talks about why you should travel when you’re young instead of when you’re older and don’t have time for it. The first thing he talked about is traveling teaches you to live an adventurist life. The second thing he talked about is traveling helps you encounter compassion. The last thing Goins talked about is traveling allows you to gain some culture. All of his statements are true in his article and people should travel when they’re young.
Although, the above said factors make a lot of sense as reason behind of young people attracted towards Mediterranean holidays, These young tourists often consider holidays as an opportunity to indulge in binge drinking, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity and other risk taking activities that
Sport tourism is one of “the fastest growing sectors of the global travel and tourism industry” (Heo, King). With this information, it is important to look at how sport tourism plays into the life of all ages of people. Active sport tourism is defined as “people who travel in order to participate in sporting events” (Heo, King). Active tourism can include watching, volunteering, or actually playing a sport. The experiment discussed in “Senior Games as Serious Sport Tourism” explains the purpose of the senior games, the revenue brought in from the games, who participates, and the benefits received for those who participate in sport tourism. The senior games are able to be classified as sport tourism because thousands of participants, volunteers,
In the Gold Coast City the international tourist visited around one third of the world. Which are ages between 15 to 29
For some of them traveling is probably part of their job, but they also want to see what kind of job offers there are. The United States can have tremendous jobs, then later once they start getting into detail with you their benefits might not be as swell. Since Millennials are the ones facing financial situations they end up finding ways to save money. With the help of Airbnb, Couchsurfing, Skyscanner, and Lonely Planet message board changings a lot of minds about long-term traveling. Amanda Machado reports that she “funded a fifteen-month trip with a little more than sixteen thousand dollars” (par.5). Traveling aboard can cost an extravagant amount of money. Typically, in most cases you get a part-time job while attending high school, and if college is part of your career you save money also. By the time comes financial expenses won’t be a problem because you already got it all saved up and ready to go.
All across the world, people view youth differently based on the life they lead. Youth is commonly defined as the time in life when someone is young and the stages of growth and development are abundant. The youth around the world have many different connotations and much of the differences are based on what some places have and what others are lacking. In some places such as the United States and other more developed countries around the world, the youth are viewed as privileged and ungrateful for what they have been given. While in other places, the youth are struggling to survive and every single day is a new battle.
The concept of volunteering in general terms refers to the act of rendering a service or services by free will or choice for the benefit of the community at large by an individual, a group, or an institution without expecting monetary gain or return in appreciation of being a volunteer (social impact of volunteerism)
My names Kenza Zakarya, I am a 16 years old girl who is very eager to learn new things. I find in every event in my life an opportunity to learn and grow. I love to travel. It is more than a passion for me. It allows me to discover new things and experiences and learn from them. Through travelling, I meet people from different backgrounds, nationalities and cultures but with the same humanity, love and respect. Travelling is what I call "life school”. It expands my perspective and made me an open mind and tolerant person. By meeting people, you get to accept people as they are and respect who they are. It is also an opportunity to get out from your comfort zone and get to know people and socialize. Moreover, it allows me to get in touch with
As curiosity to see new things grow the number of people traveling grows. According to an article on statista, between 2005 and 2015 international tourist arrivals increased by 662 million. Some people travel the world to experience new cultures,
Younger men suspect that they may prejudice their careers if they spend time abroad unless the trip provides an educational experience. Another segment are the middle aged couples. This segment seems to be growing in recent years, perhaps as the corporate work ethic loses some of its allure. The three generation families segment with Japanese grandparents often travel with their grandchildren, especially when parents find
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it” (Samuel Johnson, 1791). Traveling is wonderful in many ways, it lets us open our mind to new things and we get to experience life in exciting ways. Our wanderlust makes us long for more destinations to visit, cultures to explore, histories to learn, foods to eat, and people to meet. As amazing as traveling is, most of us think we need to wait until our later years to really explore a lot of the world. For college students, it is important to go on a longer traveling adventure after graduating. While traveling involves researching the destination to learn about the culture and to avoid bad situations, it is well worth it because it provides useful experiences for college graduates to better adjust them to an independent lifestyle. Overall, there are lots of benefits of traveling,
In the text of Business Dictionary (2016), travel is act of traversing through a geographic region or moving from one place to another. This can be temporarily, as is often the case and can be for a short period of time. Travel also is kind of life, except it happens someplace else. You wake up. You eat. You go out and see things, do things. And you meet people; some of them you get along with, some you don’t. Everyone likes to make the travel as a hobby for them. But, before making a plan to travelling, there is several things need to survey.
Traveling is an activity which more or less everyone likes. For some it is an occasion to relax and separate themselves from their busy life. For others, it is an opportunity to observe how other cultures live. And some people simply just enjoy traveling for the fun of it. There are various ways to view and experience the world. One is to study abroad, which I always considered but never understood how it’s any different from going on vacation. However, recently I discovered study abroad is a life changing opportunity that helps you discover yourself while gaining an understanding of a different culture.