WHY DO WE TRAVEL?
Each of us has his own reason or purpose why he decides to embark on a journey, but only recently we all do it and also for fun.
Man has always been a traveller.
Traveling has always been an irrepressible need, as travel is not only a perfect metaphor to describe the arc of human existence, but much more...
In recent decades it has become a pleasure within everyone's reach; to the point that, with the stop to travel imposed by the pandemic, many have felt locked in a cage.
Traveling is also synonymous with pleasure and relaxation. With the continuous improvement of transport it has been easier and easier to move to go to the sea or to exotic places.
But are we really all travelers or rather tourists?
The certain thing is that we are all born travellers.
Not everyone travels the same way and not everyone has suffered the same from being stopped.
According to tourism psychologists, the factors that motivate us to travel are always of two types and respond to the so-called "push and attract" theory: on the one hand, there is the internal drive to move, due to elements such as the desire to escape from routine, the need for relaxation, social prestige, the need for relationships and communication with others; on the other, the external factors that attract us, such as the beauty or particularity of a destination, the activities that we can carry out there, the local culture, nature and so on.
While another American psychologist says that internal needs are what drive us to travel, the external elements of attraction make us choose the destination that best meets our needs.
Man has always been a traveller.
Traveling has always been an irrepressible need, as travel is not only a perfect metaphor to describe the arc of human existence, but much more...
In recent decades it has become a pleasure within everyone's reach; to the point that, with the stop to travel imposed by the pandemic, many have felt locked in a cage.
Traveling is also synonymous with pleasure and relaxation. With the continuous improvement of transport it has been easier and easier to move to go to the sea or to exotic places.
But are we really all travelers or rather tourists?
The certain thing is that we are all born travellers.
Not everyone travels the same way and not everyone has suffered the same from being stopped.
According to tourism psychologists, the factors that motivate us to travel are always of two types and respond to the so-called "push and attract" theory: on the one hand, there is the internal drive to move, due to elements such as the desire to escape from routine, the need for relaxation, social prestige, the need for relationships and communication with others; on the other, the external factors that attract us, such as the beauty or particularity of a destination, the activities that we can carry out there, the local culture, nature and so on.
While another American psychologist says that internal needs are what drive us to travel, the external elements of attraction make us choose the destination that best meets our needs.