English Lessons With Julia: Tourism and Traveling

Заканчивается очередной учебный год, и хочется поразмышлять о наступающем лете, а также о путешествиях и туризме, которые раскрашивают нашу жизнь яркими красками, не давая увязнуть в рутине повседневности. Давайте сделаем над собой усилие и серьезно поразмышляем на тему "Tourism and Traveling".

Tourism and Traveling

The scientific and technological progress of the 20^th century has allowed people to overcome time and distance, to cover in the twinkling of an eye (в мгновение ока) the vast space of our planet. The whole world is open now. The limits and frontiers of the previous period have stopped to exist. We can choose any place on the planet and go there on business or on holiday.

Tourism is travel away from a person’s usual place of residence for a period longer than twenty-four hours, primarily for pleasure or recreation (развлечение, восстановление сил), and frequently to multiple (разнообразный) destinations. It may be a resort, but it may also be a large city.

Usually people travel for entirely different purposes. Ones – for the purpose of recreation or pleasure; they are those on holiday. Others travel for reasons of health. Some travel to visit their friends or relatives, a reason that has become more important because of increasing mobility throughout the world. Still others travel in order to educate themselves because travel is mind broadening. All of them are generally considered tourists since the primary reason for their trips is recreation.

There are several ways of traveling. Some people travel by car, some – by bus or by train, another think that the best way of traveling is on feet with a backpack on their shoulders, the most luxurious way of traveling is considered a ship, having a romantic cruise, but the most comfortable and popular transport still remains a plane. Anyway all this means of transportation have their advantages and disadvantages and each person makes his choice according to plans and resources.

As for me there is no matter which transport I choose but a good company and positive spirit plays the main role in my tour. This people and mood can make each event a real adventure. Of course the main aim of traveling is to distract from everyday life, meet new people, get acquainted with culture, architecture, cuisine and history, and all this things make our life richer and more adventurous. But there is one more sufficient thing that tourism does – it helps us to learn something new about ourselves. When we see magnificent sites of Machu Picchu, or the landscapes of New Zeeland, architecture of Prague or ancient Greece, frescoes (фрески) on the walls of the Vatican we start to realize ourselves as leaving intelligent creatures with consciousness (сознание) and a lot of complicated things in our mind that gives us an opportunity to be called human beings.

So, to sum everything up I should say that tourism and traveling are important for our well-being, they stimulate our imagination, train our senses, broaden our minds and give us unforgettable experience that is better to share with someone.

Хороших каникул и незабываемых путешествий!