Finding a change of mind, getting out of the usual schedule- is this all a tour about? Definitely not. A tour is generally a combined effort of all the crew members. Spending time together brings about great changes in any relationship. In a trip, the members are left to spend time with each other indirectly. Even this brings in great comfort levels between the individuals.
The most important thing to decide on before planning a tour is the members of the crew. The spirit of the tour can be kept up throughout the tour if all members are equally interested and excited about the tour. The kind of place to be visited greatly depends upon the individuals in the group and the converse is also true! It’s always better for the members to duly prepare for the tour. Gaining a lot of stamina before starting for a travel is extremely important. Deciding the team members is a very important step in a tour which brings concerns right from the booking of tickets till the last set of bills to be paid!!
Archive for September, 2009
The much needed Break!!
09.30
My college Tour – A lifetime Experience!
09.24
College tour is something no one will ever want to miss in life. Every college student gets excited about the college tour as much as they get bored of sitting in classes! Most of us would have never gone out anywhere for a long distance without our family before this phenomenon called “college tour”.
Planning a tour at college involves at least two months of work. Announcing the tour, getting permission from the college’s management, getting the consent from students and their parents, finding a proper tourism agency are some of the preliminary works. As always, it will involve a lot of discussion and talks.
The students get to know their friends and classmates better. It also gives a person a great level of responsibility in taking care of one’s things and conducting oneself in a greatly matured way. A tour gives a very slight glimpse of how the world can be once you are out of the college. Year after year, you can even note the differences in one’s own ways and also the ways of your friends. This is also the time of life when a tour is almost entirely about fun and enjoyment.
Family Tours!!
09.20
When it comes to family, a tour is about finding quality time together. The most important factor that determines the closeness among the members in a family is time. It is a psychological answer, that when the family members sit together for dinner, every member in the family responds better to the events and issues in the family. If a dinner together can do wonders, think of the happiness a tour can bring into the family!!
In modern times, the time spent on one’s family decreasing alarmingly. The work pressure every member in the family is put into has to be compensated by spending time together at least in the form of tours. Travels are the times when we can see the members of our family turn into kids by heart and get rid of all the chores of the household. You can really see your parents and elders in the family spending the least time for them, thinking a little away from the household and the office room!! An escape from the daily routine of every member of the family gives us time to spend entirely on the happiness and closeness of the
Travel Agencies – Pros and Cons
09.14
Nowadays, when we say ‘tour’ we immediately remember “Travel agencies”. They offer a consolidated travel plan which will cover the transport, accommodation, the total money involved and even the restaurant facilities. For college tours, travel agencies are the best. But for family tours, it depends.
The main advantage of going to a travel agency is that the entire planning involved in arranging the tour is transferred to the travel agent. The finance becomes the only concern!! But the main disadvantage is that the tour becomes too much scheduled for a normal family outing. The travel agencies mainly take care of the timings and the places covered. The whole spirit of traveling might be lost if we start feeling that the time taken to cover each place is inappropriate. When the concern is on spending quality time with our family, then arranging a scheduled tour in a travel agency might not work well. But if the concern is on visiting different places or if we are to visit places which are very new to us, then travel agencies come a long way in helping us keep track of the whole experience.
Expeditions!!
09.08
Thinking of visiting a new place, no one would like to go and land up in an entirely new place without getting proper knowledge about it. In recent days, knowing in general about the place we are to visit is nothing so difficult. Information about any place on earth can be made available at the click of a button over the internet.
In case of family tours, one will be responsible in booking the tickets, planning the accommodation and various other decisions. Websites like “yatra” provide immense help in wrapping up these jobs. We can also search for nearby spots that can be visited and can make the tour more enjoyable.
Think of such tours a decade earlier!! That should be a Himalayan task!! Moreover once you know about the place, it puts an end to any confusion that might arise in the course of travel. It’s just for the first time that arranging a tour appears a little hectic. But once you know what to do, then there is nothing stopping you from visiting the Himalayas or even the Alps!!
The History within
09.02
From age unknown, traveling has always fascinated mankind. Traveling has lead to the development and the destruction of civilizations. Many travelers have ended up being recognized as discoverers of distant lands. Think of how the world would have been if man was afraid of traveling!! America would never have been found!! (That sounds favorable!!… Anyway…) we would have never known any of our nearby countries!! Leave alone countries, we wouldn’t even how huge this world is!! We wouldn’t know where we are!! In which part of this huge world we are!!
The emperors and conquerors were always in search of new and better places to live in. People believed that there existed unknown lands far beyond the seas (yes. This is something related to Gulliver’s travels!!).More recently, mankind is even ready to travel to the neighboring planets! The main purpose of travel has changed since time unknown, but the desire to travel has not ceased in the hearts of man. In spite of the monotony of work which has crept into our civilization, we still have the desire to look for a little adventure in life, at least for a shorter time. The spirit of adventure is what is necessary to put some real life into our living.