We need a holiday to make a pause from our work routine and city rush. Science proves that traveling can improve your state of health, relieves stress and reduce depression. It makes you more creative, boost happiness and satisfaction. Aside from these, with more consideration to the purpose of your trip, you will gain more benefits.

Some people pick a holiday, pack and start wandering purposelessly. Some of you, may consider your travel destination carefully to gain some advantages on your journey. You may start your travel plan with questions such as: where you should travel, why you travel there, what the possible values you could add, and how you optimize the joy of your journey.

What is ‘Traveling with Purpose’?

Getting away from home, living in unfamiliar environment could be unforgetable experience. You thus want to embark to a journey that makes sense to you. So, What is traveling with purpose? The reasons that made you travel is the travel purpose. It is the goal, you want to achieve or experience during your trip. The puspose, which adds fulfilment and meaning to your journey. There may be many reasons why you decide to travel, but some define travel purpose as the primary reason. Without it, the travel would not be possible.

A research on well being tourism suggests, that purposeful traveler is connected with social relationships, opportunities to learn, grow, and commitment. It offers a real engagement in social activity, new skills and experience of new cultures. It reconnects you to yourself and to others. The simple example of traveling with purpose can be a business trip or a visit to friends. But apparently, any type of holiday trips can come with an intended purpose.

You could be simply wandering purposelessly during your holiday, but adding a goal to your trip will embark your journey to be more fruitful. Let say, you have heard a lot about Bali and thinking about traveling to Bali. Yes, it promises you the exotic tropical nature and unique cultural experiences. But you may as well wish to experience some inner-purpose journey, such as to understand what really yoga means and how it is practiced into daily lives. When you set this kind of purpose, everywhere you go around Bali, you feel like meditating.

Important Benefits of Traveling with Purpose

Besides health benefits; advance networking; improvement of the quality of happiness and having the memories that last forever, here is our top important benefits of traveling with a purpose.

1. Fulfilment

Because you are aware of the reason why you travel, you become more mindful to enjoy the journey. The purpose is what makes your journey more fulfilling. Often makes you realize little things which sometimes go unoticed.

2. Cultural awareness

Travellers with purpose are more conscious to experience new culture, culinary or different life style. It gives you awareness to appreciate your own. You may enter a journey of cultural consciousness, inclusiveness and empathy. Upon your return home, you will appreciate more diveristy, open minded and tolerance.

By adding the purpose to your travel could simply make you more socially, culturally and environmentally aware.

4. The answer to your quest

Knowing your travel purpose gives you the capability to recognize whether the travel options meet your quest. Unlike wandering traveller, the purposeful traveller gets better chances of choosing better destination and activities.

5. Enhance education

You travel, at the same time you study, either formally or informally. Add educational purpose to your travel that you wish to improve your skills, deepen your understanding, gain useful knowledge or to develop new ideas. Perhaps, while traveling you learn the local language, arts, youga, diving, or even new technology.

6. Responsible traveller

A purposeful traveler is more aware of every single action and choice he/she makes. The experience of overcoming challenges helps you grow confident. In adition to this, Knowing the purpose why you travel won’t make you feel so bad for spending money. You are responsible, since you are capable to recognize the right experience to enjoy.

Conclusion

Traveling with purpose gives you actually more benefits than travel plan with no plan at all. It gives you a more fulfilment journey, enhance your cultural awareness, educational pursuits and new ideas. You also become a more responsible traveler. Because once you are aware of your ‘purpose’ you are capable to choose the right destination, to include joy, relaxing and your purpose.

One example of holiday with a purpose could be the travel to Bali. Purposeful travellers will experience all the the above benefits. More importantly, Bali holiday offers inexpensive but luxurious lifetime experiences with abundance of joy. You’ll be surprised to discover how many more meaningful experiences you can squeeze in, even in just a few weeks of travel.