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speech on travel and tourism

Answer 1

Until recently, the gigantic tourism industry has been doing well, very well. In the year 2001, a recorded 688 million people were traveling internationally. As the tourism industry’s popularity grows, the image of travel and tourism begins to evolve. With a simple click of the button, your entire nine-day itinary to India could be planned, booked and paid for. No long distance calls to New Delhi. No two-hour busy lines on the United Airlines reservation lines. Traveling is as easy as ordering a pizza. At the same time as countries start to evolve and cater to the tourism industry, authenticity is lost. A distinction must be made between what is the tourist and the traveler. The essence of traveling is to experience something completely different from what is at home. Now, tourism is molded into what is familiar to us. It is no longer the culture of a society, rather one of tourism.

When a trip is organized with online tour groups or packages, it produces a view of the country that is for the consumption of the tourist. They display a faзade to foreigners of what they see as attractive or interesting. Tourism has become too much of a service. It is geared towards what the tourist would find familiar or comfortable. It takes away from the true mission of travel. Tour groups and itineraries are structured to offer the most efficiency throughout your travel. But travel in large groups, walking from bus to bus, hotel to hotel provides a very narrow experience of the country. I searched online, to find travel agencies and tour group advertisements for travel in India. On a National Geographic site, called iExplore, I found made-to-order exclusive with gold or silver package deals. The package houses the group at a Hyatt hotel in New Delhi. The site boasts that across the ocean, tourists can enjoy the comforts of HBO and mini-fridges. American channels replace, native television. Coca-cola and Sprite replace Chai tea. The importation of American hotels isn’t the only culture that has snuck in. My mother has traveled through Bombay and Calcutta and commented on the presence of McDonalds’ and KFC in city centers. Chains are known and dependable and offer a taste of home. Unfortunately the countries lose their culture as an affect. An entirely new culture is developed out of the popularity of the tourism industry. Staying at Hyatt’s and eating at KFC only removes them from the original culture. The popularity of the new factories and chain restaurants requires construction and massive consumption of natural resources. In simple places such as Calcutta and Bombay, my mother noticed mass construction of new roads from town to town. The roads will cause serious erosion problems in the future. The bustle and boom of the tourism industry blindly leads the locals to the bright lights of a market economy and instant profit.

Answer 2

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Travel is the activity of making journey to another geographical location other than where we live. Travel is one of the important activities of our life. We are compelled to travel often because of family functions, meeting friends, and attend official duties. We travel for pleasure on excursions and for visiting touristic places. continuing further on: “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Travel is an important diversion for us from daily mundane routine. Travel teaches us many things that we cannot learn from residing at a place. Travel enriches our knowledge and increases our wisdom. Travel costs some amount. One needs to take precautions and needs to make plans for the journey. However, it is worth making all the arrangements and traveling. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson What about touring and tourism? Tourism is travelling to various popular touristic and heritage locations in the state, country or world. Tourism helps us to learn the good history and rich cultural heritage that our ancestors have given us. Tourism helps us to learn our own land. We can really enjoy tourism as various facilities are provided at each location. The hotels, conveyance, restaurants and public transport etc. All one has to do is to book well in advance for all the facilities. It costs a lot, but tourism allows one to see what we study in our lessons. We learn a lot of practical issues, see different cultures, interacting with people of multiple back grounds and manners. Most of the employees are given a chance to take a tour along with their family by a scheme called Leave travel Allowance. One can get all the information on the touristic spots through internet, or by contact government tourism department, or travel agencies. In India, travel and tourism is not so convenient as that in developed countries. There are many shortcomings that are to be corrected by the ministry of tourism, so that the tourism industry will grow and make profit. Many foreigners are not interested in Indian tourism due to risks of infection and dirtiness. Conclusion : In India people make a lot of tours to various pilgrimage centers and big towns and cities. The tourism to isolated heritage centers is perhaps not the first choice. Is it enough that we boast ourselves of India and its greatness. But we do not visit our own heritage and remember our ancestors great deeds and constructions. Let us make a promise to ourselves that we will do tours and travel that enlightens us and makes us proud of being Indians.