60+ benefits of travel in your growth

In this article you will learn the following

-24 tips to make you travel fun

-40+ tips to reduce stress while traveling - creating plans to mitigate travel stress by dealing with factors that kill-joy

-24 benefits of adventure-travel

-30 immutable benefits of leisure-travel

-7 types of adventure travel

Travel can be exciting and exhilarating - If planned well - it can also do wonders for your mental and emotional wellbeing.

Travel can be - exploring historical places, soaking on the beach, trekking on a rocky cliff-hanger or just relaxing while sipping your favorite beverage besides fire on snow-capped mountain.

There is one type of travel that will have your adrenaline pumping overtime - which is both thrilling, exciting and scary at the same time - this is called adventure travel.

Adventure travel is involves risk [perceived and actual] and extreme physical and mental exertion and stretching yourself beyond your current capabilities and comfort-levels - in most cases you need specialized skills or will have to do the activities under trained-certified expert-supervision.

7 types of adventure travel [I have given only an indicative list for illustration - please add your own]

• 1.Backpacking -going on a shoes-string budget
• 2.Travelling many parts of the world by say motor-bike or bicycle or any such thing [ can you remember the 1960s movie "around the world in 80 days"]
• 3.Thrilling and terrifyingly chilling activities - like white-water rafting, bungee jumping or sky-diving
• 4.Activities like - mountaineering, trekking, mountain biking, cycling, canoeing, scuba diving, rafting, kayaking and paragliding etc.
• 5.Camping in the wild or on the glaciers
• 6.Desert or jungle safari
• 7.Travelling to help disaster-calamity effected people

24 benefits of adventure-travel

• 1.Adventure travel offers great life changing experiences
• 2.Adventure travel pushes you much beyond your comfort zone
• 3.Creates a heightened sense of accomplishment which is your growth-booster
• 4.Challenges you to raise your bar and standards
• 5.Creates self-pride and self-confidence
• 6.You can see inaccessible landscapes
• 7.Improves your mental health and emotional-wellbeing
• 8.Helps you learn new life skills
• 9.You can create motivation by re-living your time of triumph when you went and did adventure-travel
• 10.You meet cool people and learn to bond quickly - sometimes these relationships can last life long
• 11.You get the material for telling great stories
• 12.You return home healthier & energized & rejuvenated
• 13.All the different adventure travel provides you with a unique experience
• 14.It makes you more resilient, fit and smarter
• 15.It can boosts your drive and zeal
• 16.When you do activities where you have to say make your hands dirty -your physical health gets improved
• 17.Being in outdoor doing activities helps overcome many mental bocks as well as benefits you in many ways
• 18.It increases your tolerance for uncertainty
• 19.When you feel scared and yet you do it - this triggers reflectiveness - which can add value to many parts of life
• 20.Itis a great stress buster
• 21.It helps you to reinvent yourself and identify your strengths
• 22.It boosts happiness and satisfaction
• 23.It makes you mentally resilient
• 24.It enhances your creativity as it can strengthen your cognitive flexibility

30 immutable benefits of leisure-travel

• 1.Traveling promotes happiness and helps you take your mind off stressful situations and also helps us reflect on our personal goals and interests
• 2.Travel to a foreign country, can help you re-evaluate and reinvent your life by helping you broaden and expanding your mind and personality
• 3.Traveling to places with different cultures forces you to think and empathize about the differences -different is not better or worse, it's just different
• 4.Getting exposed to different customs, beliefs, rituals and perceptions helps also help you re-evaluate your own paradigm, principles and values and at many instances moderate them.
• 5.Fresh air and sunshine and being with nature is a natural mood-elevator and can help you ward off depression and negativities
• 6.Whether you spend your time mountain-climbing, trekking, /hiking or just sitting on the beach - it relaxes you automatically
• 7.Travel on vacations frees you from the strict regimen of your work life - you don't have to stick with any routine or schedule
• 8.You get exposed to ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things
• 9.You get chance to communicate, connect and explore with people who are completely different in culture, habits, needs and perceptions
• 10.Your life's purpose can also get clearer
• 11.Your energy reserves gets recharged
• 12.You are able to get out of burnout
• 13.You also start building pleasant memories
• 14.Travel promotes you overall wellbeing
• 15.Travel can strengthen your relationships and bonds if done properly
• 16.Can help with your job performance
• 17.Vacations relieve stress in lasting ways
• 18.Traveling gives you the opportunity to step away from your daily grind and the new events and experiences help rejuvenate your brain and boosts and uplift your mood
• 19.Act of planning a trip also can help you relax and the anticipation of a trip can increase your happiness substantially- much more than the anticipation of acquiring anything materialistic like a new car
• 20.Going and living somewhere where you feel excited and intimidated at the same time can help you toughen up mentally and emotionally
• 21.Facing challenging and unfamiliar environment - among new people - helps you break your comfort zone by making you more flexible, patient and emotionally robust.
• 22.Exploring new places can also give you the time and space to get adjust with and bounce back to your life after a major setback or transition in your life.
• 23.Even the negative experiences of getting robbed and mugged in a foreign landmay help you accept disruptive situationsbetter
• 24.You learn to modify your plans at short notices and you become better and better at dealing with and solving problems faster
• 25.The things that you differently - also gives you vast areas of development which could open up unparalleled avenues of growth
• 26.Exposure to new cultures, making international friends, studying new languages, and taking in different types of food and music have been linked to better problem-solving skills. Travel helps you see the world in a new way.
• 27.Allows for resetting your routine by breaking it - if you are looking for a fresh start - travelling can even give you that
• 28.Helps in improving your mental power, your memory and goal-setting abilities to make you more productive and focused
• 29.Most of us feel better automatically when we are moving with a purpose
• 30.Your brain will start function better
• 31.You would become sharper observer
• 32.Your immune system will get strengthen
• 33.You will have overall improvement in your mood

24 tips to make you travel fun

• 1.Use the process of planning for your vacation as a stress-buster
• 2.Understand that your travel or vacations don't have to be expensive or exotic - to give you all the benefits
• 3.Explore new places - learn new languages
• 4.Get out of your comfort zone by living like a native to increase your social-intelligence by enhancing your empathy
• 5.Go to places you have never been before
• 6.Experience other cultures - which are significantly different than your
• 7.Make your travel fun - for all - include all the travel companion on decision-making
• 8.Whether you are travelling for pleasure, learning and growth -make it personal- go where you want to go
• 9.While on vacation - do these things - add your own activities
• I.Go for a walk
• II.Eat natural food consider supplements
• III.Connect with nature
• IV.Experiment with your taste-buds - explore local cuisine
• V.Use nature's smell to act as your travel aromatherapy - smell the flowers or the pine or any pleasant natural aroma and smell
• VI.Journal - photograph - record video
• VII.Listen to soothing music or even the wind making chiming musical sound
• VIII.Sing dance and laugh
• IX.Connect with travel companions and locals
• X.Just say "no" - being selective about what you take on — and saying no to things that will unnecessarily add to your load — can reduce your stress levels.
• XI.Meditate - practice abdominal breathing - do yoga and tai chi
• XII.If there is opportunity - turn a part of this vacation into serving others
• XIII.Take part in local cultural activities
• XIV.If you can - live like a local in their house
• XV.Have something to look forward to when you get home

However poorly planned and stressful vacations eliminate the positive benefit of travel.

40+ tips to reduce stress while traveling - creating plans to mitigate travel stress by dealing with factors that kill-joy

• 1.Create ways to enjoy your downtime
• 2.Schedule and plan for extra time before and after the flight
• 3.Ways to reduce travel stress related to your financial constraints
• I.Save for a trip whole year if it is a yearly once family trip
• II.Book only that trip which you can afford
• III.If you all are keen on going for a vacation that would need you to borrow - wait - save
• IV.Find how can you do the same activities - cheaper
• V.Explore the option of backpacking hostels
• VI.Book your travel well in advance to take advantage of the cheaper tickets and accommodation offered to the early-birds
• VII.If possible book in the off-season - avoid peak-season
• VIII.Compare prices before booking - check for discount travel-passes
• IX.Never ever try to book travel because your friend went on an extravagant one
• X.Create memorable travel experiences
• XI.Yes you can splurge a little here and there - within your limit
• 4.Expectation setting to reduce travel stress related to thinking travel will solve problems
• I.Travel does have numerous benefits - but it cannot change your relationship or stress or make you a different person overnight
• II.Understand that it is a healthy way to vent your pent-up feelings and also to have a relaxed interaction with your important relations
• III.Accept that travel alone cannot fix your troubled marriage or relationship
• IV.Never use travel to escape problems at home or in your life - it will actually end up increasing your stress
• V.What you can do instead is - identify the long-term solutions to your problems - and only as a reward to taking actions on these action-steps you go for vacation
• VI.Understand that no change is possible unless you are flexible and willing to change yourself
• VII.Don't expect that your chosen destination or the trip would be perfect as per what you have imagined through advertisements and brochures etc.
• VIII.Be flexible while traveling- focus on the positive experiences and enjoy them - don't let any of the flaws - get in the way of your enjoying he positive aspects of a trip
• 5.Ways to reduce travel stress related to faulty-travel-planning
• I.Create a checklist with all the things you need to do before your trip - selecting the place, identifying how will you be travelling, like applying for a visa, booking flight-tickets and hotel-accommodations and making loose itinerary etc.
• II.Once you have an exhaustive list - create and schedule these action points on daily, weekly, monthly basis
• III.Engage the services of good travel partners to ease your planning in the areas their expertise lies
• IV.Start the planning process as early as you can so you have more time - avoid last minute planning - as more often it would leads to more stress and you taking expensive and wrong decisions
• V.Find among your acquaintances people who have traveled to the places you are planning to go and seek their inputs and suggestions on what to do and what not to do
• VI.Research on your flights, know the baggage allowances, arrival times etc.
• VII.Pack your most essential items like your medications, travel documents, money, ids, travel-gear and carry it with you as cabin -baggage - then in case your luggage is delayed or lost, at least you'll have all your essentials.
• VIII.Read about the destination beforehand. Learn a little about the history, culture, customs, food, common modes of transportation, etc.
• 6.Ways to reduce travel stress related to personal safety and security concerns
• I.Search for recent reviews and news - on your destination -if a valid risk does seem to be present - ask yourself would you feel safe traveling there
• II.Once there be extra vigilant to aware of your surroundings - sharing your location with and informing them where you are going each day
• III.Make copies of all your travel documents -keeping your money and credit cards in more than once place, ensue that your travel insurance is adequate and covers the theft, losses, accidents and hospitalization as well as cancellations etc.
• IV.Know who you should contact in the unlikely event that something like terrorist act, robbery, sexual assault and mugging etc. does happen to people while traveling.
• V.Choose alternative destination if you are feeling genuinely fearful or anxious
• VI.Keep medicines handy
• VII.Ways to reduce travel stress related to unexpected changes:
• VIII.If an unexpected issue arises, try to stay calm, find out what you can, and focus on the things you can change. Try to accept the things you cannot change and find ways to make the most out of the situation.
• IX.Learn a relaxation technique that you can do anywhere that works for you. Practice it so you can use it when it is needed.