Travel Importance

Travel Importance

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust

"Travel is the best education. Nothing opens our eyes more. How can we be global citizens without traveling?"
- Wendy Perrin from Conde Nast Traveler's Perrin Post

"Life is an adventure! Travel enriches, expands, touches, educates, delights, and connects like nothing else. To know the earth, its people and beauty, one must go."
- Jeanne Dee from Soultravelers3

"Travel is learning, and learning is a worthwhile use of time. We all have a finite number of days, months, and years left on earth. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking there's no rush, but actually there is. I urge people not to wait to travel. Go now."
- Jamie Pearson from Travel Savvy Mom

"For children travel matters because it is a part of their education. They need to learn about different cultures and new languages."
- Darren Cronian from Travel Rants

"Traveling allows you to press the 'pause' button on your own life and go experience someone else's for a while. Everyone needs a dose of humility, and nothing makes you more humble than seeing just how big the world really is. And because after so long, telling someone in a foreign country you're American [now] makes them smile again."
- Christine Cantera from Miss Expatria

"It expands our horizons and increases our understanding of both the world and ourselves. Develops inner confidence in oneself."
- Alex Berger from Virtual Wayfarer

"Travel opens your eyes, your mind and your heart to the people and places which fill this world."
- Michelle Duffy from WanderMom

"I travel because in this modern globalized world, one can't understand it without experiencing new cultures and new places. If we are to move past the divisions of history and get along, we have to have cultural understanding. We can't put walls up. Traveling helps tear down the walls that lead to misunderstanding and conflict."
- Matt Kepnes from Nomadic Matt

"Traveling to unfamiliar places makes me see that there is a lot of beauty in the world -- landscape, people, art and culture. Taking care of it becomes important."
- Kimberly Kradel from Artist at Large

"When I travel I never feel like I need more of anything, except for travel itself. It is the triumph of experience over stuff. Best of all it has the same affect on my children, who are clamoring for another trip to Paris for Christmas."
- Mara Gorman from Mother of all Trip

"Memories of the spontaneous transcendent events that happen during a cross-cultural experience remain vivid for all the years of one's lifetime."
- David Chamberlain of Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel

"Imagine taking a break from your road trip through Jordan. You pull off in a small town, distinguished only by a bright blue Mosque set against a backdrop of sand-colored homes and desert. You pull some pistachios out of your trunk and set off in search of a cold drink. At the small family owned shop, barely open during the heat of the day, you're greeted... not with suspicion, but with joy. The owners refuse your money (you leave a small gift in return) and you are invited to meet the whole family and share your stories over a warm meal. Could you write off all Arabs as angry, intolerant, American haters after that? I'd guess not."
- Debbie Dubrow from Delicious Baby


Travel is important because it fundamentally transforms us. This experience of waking up to the power of your own transformation fires you up to “be the change you want to see in the world,” as Gandhi puts it.

By taking a break from your daily life, unplugging from the pulls and pushes of technology and engaging in new activities in new places, you have an easier opportunity to release unwanted habits. Also, it is empowering to surround yourself with people who don't know the encyclopedia of your past. It reinforces your willingness to broaden your horizons, to get unstuck and to move in new directions.

Top 10 reasons why travel is important:

Here are my top 10 reasons why travel is important:

1. Provides learning and education about places and history

2. Connects us to other cultures and people

3. Slows us down: Gives us a break from our fast-paced lives

4. Expands our awareness and introduces us to greater diversity

5. Helps us break habits: mentally, physically, and emotionally

6. Gives us time to heal, reduces stress and helps us regain enthusiasm for life

7.Stokes curiosity and awakens our inner child by offering us new, “first-time” experiences

8. Promotes patience by releasing heavy expectations of the “one right way” mentality thereby allowing life to flow more organically

9. Invites the opportunity to get lost and face one’s fears of the unknown

10. Helps you get to know yourself better: the true you is rediscovered