The five reasons humans travel.
Traveling comes pretty naturally to us humans. Whether it was due to hunting, migration, trade, conflict, curiosity; we have moved about the earth ever since we started walking on two legs. Not every person will go great distances in their lifetime, but each of us travels in some way.

Why do you go far?

Nowadays, you can group most of the individual reasons for travel into one of five categories. We have ranked them by increasing level of depth. Deep travel is a relatively new buzzword in tourism that aims to establish itself as threshold for meaningful journeys. It can be a useful concept to consider when evaluating why we are traveling in the first place.

Travel To Relax

escape from the every day obligations and do nothing for a little while

Travel To Play

enjoy and be entertained by sights, encounters and activities that are novel

Travel To Gather

meet with others who live someplace else, be it family, friends, colleagues or connections

Travel To Learn

practice skills, acquire knowledge and pursue personal growth

Travel To Live

seek safety, access adequate resources, or find a place to call home

With Actuality Abroad, we practice a deeper travel by way of learning. This approach is a combination of mindset, habits and principles. Some basic methods in ‘traveling to learn’ can be adopted by anyone, in any context. Perhaps you already incorporate some of these into your travels. Here is our advice for those who are interested in traveling deeper.

When you start traveling to learn, you can no longer settle for tourism-as-usual. It isn’t enough to just travel to relax, play or gather anyone. You yearn for something deeper.
['Aubrie Canfield']
['Travel Tips', 'Educational Travel', 'Travel']