Everybody likes to travel. Traveling gives us new adventures, experiences and memories that last a lifetime. Nevertheless, not only travel is fun; it provides a number of surprising personal and health advantages as well. In fact, researches show travel endows people with greater learning capacity, increases feeling of happiness and pleasure, provides better family relationships and decreases risk of heart attack.
First of all, travel is about learning experience. The new cultures and sights, cuisines and museums experienced in foreign countries give numerous opportunities to experience and learn something new. Just visiting another country increases the traveler’s knowledge and intercultural awareness.
Moreover, traveling helps students to learn more and more effectively. Researches show students who travel have better grades than their peers who don’t leave their home. These students also display stronger academic interests and more personal confidence especially when studying in college. Actually, students who travel abroad are almost twice as likely to complete a college degree and earn a 40% higher income than their non-traveling peers.
Vacation and relaxation can’t be separated. Everybody needs time away from the office to relax, and researches displayed that travel does really reduce stress. It’s important, that it not only reduces stress the same moment, but it also improves people’s ability to handle stress long after they come back home. Studies have also shown decreased stress levels in travelers based not only on subjective self-reports, but these researches also have demonstrated the stress-reducing power of traveling by measuring lower levels of stress hormones in the saliva of study participants.
The advantages of travel and the resulting traveler’s high extend into the workplace. Employees who travel show lower rates of absenteeism, higher levels of productivity and generally report feeling less exhausted than their colleagues who don’t take trips.
It’s common knowledge that traveling makes people having mutual lifelong memories. Couples are strongly and positively influenced by trips taken together; 75% of adults say travel improves their interpersonal relationships. In addition, researches show that family traveling can do more than just improve relationships and provide lifelong memories; it can also decrease behavioral problems and illness in kids.
But the most compelling reason to add extra travel to your schedule: travel has been connected to a lower risk of heart attack. For instance, a 9-year research of 12,000 middle-aged men showed that men who have at least one vacation per year were 30% likely to die from heart attack than those who don’t travel. In addition, the Framingham Heart study displayed that among 750 women who didn’t take trips were twice as likely to suffer a heart disease as those who traveled the most. Travel is also connected with a lower risk of depression; a 2005 research evidenced the connection between traveling and decreased risk of depression among 15,000 women.
Thus travel is good for your health, but in order to get the most out of your traveling, staying healthy is a must! Taking trips with proper pre-trip planning and preventative measures, improves happiness, learning, health and relationships. So what are you still waiting for? Plan your next vacation right now!