Many people believe that “the time when you were born that is the time to start your journey.” Do you agree with that?
What is your answer when you get a question like “What do you do in your free time? Or What are your favourite activities during your holiday?
Travel becomes the popular answer for people especially the people who have a purpose for leisure, recreation and holidays (UNWTO, 2018, P.3).
On the one hand, when people think about travel most of the people may think about the budget has to prepare and time to spend. On the other hand, people get various benefits from this activity. What is the benefit for them? The answer to this question could be in two types of benefits. The first one is a direct benefit which happens to the tourist, themselves. For example, tourist should prepare and get themselves ready before starting their journey by manage and organise the planning such as booking transportation ticket like air or train three month ahead and saving money to pay for the cost of traveling. An indirect benefit which occurs to world economics is the second benefit. According to the figure for total international tourism receipts in 2017 was risen 5% from 2016 which is 1,340 billion (UNWTO, 2018, P.2). This is because when people start the journey, they are going to spend the budget of the program. For instance, when a tourist from Asia travel to Europe, they should exchange their currency to be destination currency which means the profit from selling and buying currency happen to the exchange service companies. Even though, four of five or 80 percent of tourist travel within their region (UNWTO, 2018, P.14) however, the currency exchange business keep continuous because each country in each region has their currency. Although in European Union (EU) has Euro which is the official currency but not every member country uses this standard (EUROPA, 2018, para. 2)
In the present day, new technology changed the world rapidly not only machine but also people life ‘style too. The human can get advantage from this change. This is because technology offer the convention for the worker and do the job in wherever has an internet connection. For example, an employee can present their job to an employer from around the world via a digital platform. To what extent digital technology can create new economy including traveling.
Are you ready for your life’ s journey? In the digital technology era.
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