Travel these days has become increasingly easy and fast. You can fly to Manila, Utah or Manila, Philippines, Dallas, Texas or Dallas, Oregon, anywhere you want to go, you can fly there. With a wide variety of airplanes, daily flights, and bargain deals, travelers can often find travel deals to destinations once considered remote and only accessible to the very hardy adventurous traveler or the privileged elite. With the proliferation of bargain deals offered by all the sundry local and international airlines and the commonplace practice of overbooking flights, any individual who is constantly and consistently on the lookout for cheap deals may actually be able to spend less traveling to a foreign locale rather than another state, city or county within the same country. With such bargain deals, it is no wonder that the tourist industry is booming in every sector.
What ramifications does the increase in worldwide travel have in terms of cultural exchange and the establishment of a national identity, may it be one that is congruous or incongruous to other elements? This is a question that has yet to derive a satisfactory answer. For the hoi polloi, travel is a gateway to a different reality, aside from being a mere gateway to panoramic landscapes -- the average person gets to see things on a macro rather than a micro level, has his/her endurance put to the test and allows for a greater understanding of human nature and the diversity of worldwide cultures.
There are many countries who are well-renowned as top travel destinations which are now thriving on the all-encompassing nature of the tourist industry -- new hotels and outdoor facilities, a renewed interest in Old World culture and entertainment, even more modern types of entertainment facilities -- these are all designed to maintain their high perch in the rankings of the world's top tourist destinations, both implicit and explicit.
A plethora of travel magazines have sprung up to support this industry, ranging from beach and resort guides, to targeted audiences such as family vacations, hunting or sport vacations, adventure destinations, religious and spiritual retreats, health and wellness spas, business traveler and corporate meeting destinations, and much more. And if one scrutinizes the back pages of one of these guides, one will be flummoxed by the number of deals he can find, discussed in pith through colorful and descriptive advertisements offering discounts on transport, lodging, dining, et cetera.
Bhutan, a mountain kingdom that can be found in the Himalayas, was once a land that only townspeople inhabited and the royalty and bourgeoisie visited, yet it is a quintessential example of a once-exclusive domain now very accessible to the masses. This and places such as the steppes of Mongolia and the islands of Vancouver, British Columbia, are areas of exquisite beauty, pristinely left intact by local inhabitants and low human impact. Yes, it is true that these locations are tranquil in their being and unblemished by industrialization's virtual mark of Cain, but there may be a time when the corporate side of the tourism and eco-tourism industries could rear its ugly head and turn these pristine sanctuaries into heavily embellished areas with little trace of what used to be immaculate, pellucid beauty.
There have been a large number of real estate developers who have been at loggerheads with environmentalists and locals over the matter of open expansion -- this impasse is characterized by the former party wanting open expansion to generate commerce for the locality, and the latter party ardently wishing that the natural habitat and ecosystem of these areas remain untarnished by the elements of change.
What ramifications does the increase in worldwide travel have in terms of cultural exchange and the establishment of a national identity, may it be one that is congruous or incongruous to other elements? This is a question that has yet to derive a satisfactory answer. For the hoi polloi, travel is a gateway to a different reality, aside from being a mere gateway to panoramic landscapes -- the average person gets to see things on a macro rather than a micro level, has his/her endurance put to the test and allows for a greater understanding of human nature and the diversity of worldwide cultures.
There are many countries who are well-renowned as top travel destinations which are now thriving on the all-encompassing nature of the tourist industry -- new hotels and outdoor facilities, a renewed interest in Old World culture and entertainment, even more modern types of entertainment facilities -- these are all designed to maintain their high perch in the rankings of the world's top tourist destinations, both implicit and explicit.
A plethora of travel magazines have sprung up to support this industry, ranging from beach and resort guides, to targeted audiences such as family vacations, hunting or sport vacations, adventure destinations, religious and spiritual retreats, health and wellness spas, business traveler and corporate meeting destinations, and much more. And if one scrutinizes the back pages of one of these guides, one will be flummoxed by the number of deals he can find, discussed in pith through colorful and descriptive advertisements offering discounts on transport, lodging, dining, et cetera.
Bhutan, a mountain kingdom that can be found in the Himalayas, was once a land that only townspeople inhabited and the royalty and bourgeoisie visited, yet it is a quintessential example of a once-exclusive domain now very accessible to the masses. This and places such as the steppes of Mongolia and the islands of Vancouver, British Columbia, are areas of exquisite beauty, pristinely left intact by local inhabitants and low human impact. Yes, it is true that these locations are tranquil in their being and unblemished by industrialization's virtual mark of Cain, but there may be a time when the corporate side of the tourism and eco-tourism industries could rear its ugly head and turn these pristine sanctuaries into heavily embellished areas with little trace of what used to be immaculate, pellucid beauty.
There have been a large number of real estate developers who have been at loggerheads with environmentalists and locals over the matter of open expansion -- this impasse is characterized by the former party wanting open expansion to generate commerce for the locality, and the latter party ardently wishing that the natural habitat and ecosystem of these areas remain untarnished by the elements of change.
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