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It is an axiomatic fact that travelling is fun and entails several benefits for the traveller. Travelling is a source of contentment, peace and happiness for a person. It imparts extensive knowledge about the world, which a specific university course can never provide. A lot of knowledge about the culture, nationalities, traditions and habits of people dwelling across different regions of the world is well known by travelling. Interacting with the locals of any region while travelling aids in gaining an insight about their lifestyles, habits and traditions.

Travelling is beneficial as it helps one develop a sound understanding about one’s own social orientation and language skills. By travelling, one realises how different we are from foreign people and how differently to react and behave in different situations. In addition, the importance of our homeland is well known, and its distinctiveness and uniqueness is well understood.

Travelling helps in shaping a person’s personality. It makes one tolerant and enables us to accept and recognise differences by meeting people belonging to diverse cultures. It helps remove bias and a sense of parochial mindedness and improves global harmony.

A set of cherish able memories is well built by travelling to local and foreign places. Sweet and pleasant memories of mountains, landscapes and people are well crafted by travelling. Such memories can be translated in form of tales to the future generations.

Travelling helps in shaping a person’s personality. It makes one tolerant and enables us to accept and recognise differences by meeting people belonging to diverse cultures. It helps remove bias and a sense of parochial mindedness and improves global harmony

Besides, a chance to experiment with new activities never tried before is also gained by travelling. Interpersonal skills are inevitably polished by travelling. It makes one feel independent, confident and self-sufficient in many ways as one is able to tackle different situations in a new culture on own. Creativity and innovation is also polished. New and fresh ideas are injected in a human’s mind by travelling.

Knowledge about new places, cuisines, new languages and expressions is beefed up by visiting new local and foreign cultures. Travelling rejuvenates a soul and mind, and motivates a person to apply the new knowledge and skills learnt in one’s home country.

Travelling has a magical positive impact on a human’s health. It improves the physical and mental health of a person. Travelling is a source of healing for the mind and body of a person. It rejuvenates the soul and improves the surface area of the brain thereby increasing the mental and physical capacities of human’s body. A sense of satisfaction, contentment and bliss overwhelms a human for whole life. It refreshing effects are ever lasting.

Relationship bonding is also improved by travelling. New people for instance newlywed couples get along amiably with each other in a new environment when they travel abroad. A peaceful and a serene environment offers better chances of developing intimacy.

New and better employment opportunities are explored by travelling to new places offering improved standard of living. People travelling to developed nations from developing ones explore improved job markets with strong economies to settle in the future. Considering the aforementioned benefits of travelling, it can be concluded that easy and safe travelling opportunities should be extensively formulated by governments of countries across the globe.

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