Take Your Time

One of the best ways to make friends with locals is simply to slow down. It’s hard to truly get to know anyone if you’re in a new place every night.

If you're buying your morning coffee at the same café, you can’t help but build connections.

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The 10 Lessons To Learn From Traveling

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By College Tourist; Author: Nicole Darian, University of Iowa What The Real World Won't Teach You Contrary to popular belief, traveling can teach you more than a classroom, job, or relationship ever will. I've found that people's definitions of "the real world" vary quite a bit.

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Travelling is your best teacher

Contrary to popular belief, traveling can teach you more than a classroom, job, or relationship ever will.

The real world means packing up and leaving your comfort zone, the familiar, your sa...

Lessons that travelling will teach you

To be more patient when things do not go as planned - and it happens on every trip.
To leave your comfort zone. It's exhilarating to forget what's familiar for a bit and expand your horizons.
To be more curious. Being in new territory will probe new ideas and curiosities.
To appreciate other cultures.
To live simply. You can survive with very, very little.
To make friends with strangers as travelling make you desperate for human interaction.
...but to also embrace your solo travel experience. You will come home with a new sense of independence.
To try new things as what you do at home doesn't always work when you travel.
To think creatively. Sometimes it takes a little thinking outside of the box to get by.
To find beauty in small things that you did not notice before you started your trip, like a home-cooked meal.

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Opinion | The new virus will change how we travel. That will probably be good for us.

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As millions of travel and tourism workers now find themselves out of jobs, furloughed or, as in the case of some cruise ship employees, stuck indefinitely at sea, the industries involved seem to be gearing up for some future "recovery," insinuating a return to the baseline of pre-coronavirus.

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Bigger Isn’t Better

The Travel and Tourism industry always thrived on big. Big cruise ships, crowded national parks, and large scale corporatization.

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The World Becomes Non-Essential

As we fall back to the ‘essential’ living conditions, locked down at our homes, the excesses of our globalized world, the giant amusement parks, malls, hotels, airlines, resorts, and the hoards of travellers are visible.

We have to look towards a more sustainable future of travel, and not screw up this time.

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10 Reasons Why Traveling Is A More Valuable Learning Experience Than Going To School

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School is probably the best place to expand your academic knowledge, but when it comes to learning about life, there is nothing more enriching than traveling. Whether it's the people you meet or the things you see, traveling provides more valuable life lessons than school, mainly because instead of being told something, you experience it.

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Pushing limits

Traveling forces you out of your comfort zone.

You know and feel comfortable with all the people in the school: the teachers, the friends, the parents, and other school workers.

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Travelling and time management

Traveling teaches you better time management skill

In your travel adventure, getting late will cost you lots of money. After all, you can’t ask the plane to wait for you.

New experiences and perspectives

Traveling allows you to see and experience new ways of living.

Have you been to Guangzhou, China and seen people eat cockroaches and worms? You might be able to see the photo of that from a textbook, but experiencing it yourself can only be done through traveling.

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