Nowadays, the demand for better travel has skyrocketed and the trend of travel has changed. Then, how has the trend changed? Before discussing this, we need to know what made the difference; the development of mobile technology is the key of this change. Mobile devices so-called mobile revolution caused rapid spread and generalization of plentiful and various information, and that has influenced on our life including travel. Tourism in the midst of a mobile revolution explains what implication this development has applied on our travel pattern.
We are in the midst of an out-and-out explosion in mobile technology innovation. The use of smartphone / tablet technology, social media and apps is growing rapidly, to the point where online use from mobile devices is expected to outstrip traditional internet use by 2014. It’s changing the way we experience and engage with every day life– from the way we spend our leisure time to the way we communicate with our friends and family – the impact is there for all to see. If we know one thing for sure it’s that the use of technology will continue to innovate and evolve as we look towards 2020.Through this, it can be confidently believed that thanks to the information revolution people don't need to depend on travel packages of tour agencies any more. Moreover, The 14 Trends That Will Define Travel In 2014 explains people started to shun human interaction as they know everything about places where they would go with mobile tools, and bike and train, local and inter-city travel, is where all the innovation in transportation is happening. Thus, people finally could independently forge their own way of travel palatable to themselves. Because it sometime becomes our task to set the travel plan from places to visit to time spent in there, it is need-to-know to consider the question about which is more important, quality and quantity.
Today in the support of mobile and traffic technology, the tendency of "competitive travel"ㅡto concentrate on increasing the number of places a person visit or the stamps on the passportㅡbecame one of the popular types of travel. There is, however, the worry that it might take important elements of travel awayㅡ one involving human interaction, one involving deep understanding, and one involving true information.
Let's consider human interactions first. Under the effect of mobile revolution, having enough information gained from mobile tools is common in modern society and this lets us obviate the need to ask native people for some information. Why does it matter? In the process of conversation with native people while traveling, travelers could not only kick their loneliness out but also learning something important. In the post of a blog, the writer, who have spent his time traveling more than 14 years and shared his experience, says how he was lonely during his travel: I could not understand the language, I had no idea about the local customs, I did not know which places were safe, which should be avoided, what foods to try, what had a higher chance of making me ill. He says he did not have any friends around, he did not know who to trust or how to find out any reliable information and he did not even know what he was ‘supposed’ to be doing every day. Finally, the answer that he suggests to overcome this is the same with below.
In the end, the only way to learn some of the language, the only way to learn about the customs and where to eat or what’s on the menu or how to find information is to communicate with those around you. Talk to the shop owners, ask your waiter a question, start conversations with fellow travelers (many of whom are wandering around struggling with the same things as you!), rely on the hostel staff for some advice.”. To answer these, consumersBased on the empirical story of the veteran traveler, it can be said that the interaction with native people gives travelers a lot of advantage like skill of communicating with strangers, or knowing new information, and the mobile tools that makes people shun human interaction now takes these advantages away from travelers though it does not mean to be. We all knows that our smartphone can give us information but it cannot yet give us skill for communication with stranger directly. Also, if we are busy moving to roam from places to places, we would have far less time to talk with them. Though it is likely to be though that people with mobile tools can solve almost problems themselves while traveling, there are still something that a person cannot obtain with it.
are increasingly turning to the opinions of other tourists on travel review sites as a first port of call. Over the next decade, the functionality of travel review sites will grow alongside innovations in mobile technology and will become even more embedded in the planning stage.
Moreover, It is becoming more and more important for consumers to be connected at all times during their travels. The smartphone will become the ubiquitous travel companion giving tourists access to their passport, money, travel guides and reviews, maps, social networks and much more as mobile technology continues to develop.
Moving on another reason, deep understanding in travel is also an important element that is in danger of disappearing due to competitive travel tendency. Samuel Johnson, a English writer of England in 18 centuries, said "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." What relation do this saying have with travel? As this saying conveys us that to know something deeply the enough effort is needed, we can draw a conclusion from this that people should invest their time and effort if they want to comprehend the meaning of the place. If it still leave clueless, then think about traveling France. It just passed 10 minutes after arriving at Louvre Museum and the tourist says it is time to leave here. Can 10 minutes bring travelers deep appreciation in Louvre which has more than 30,000 pieces of paintings? The understanding about the a painting must be different between those who observed it closely and those who caught a glimpse of it. If the thought internet has the pictures of pieces of Louvre came up, ask that Mona Lisa with digital pixel is really the same with real one. Therefore, to be busy trying to increase the number of visited attractions would make people just remember the memory they were so hurry, not the appreciation about places. It is memorable fact that if one don't spend enough time for it, it is natural to become hard to remember what he or she saw.
Finally, let's turn to information. One might think it is more easier to get information on the internet than on traveling. We need to, however, know still the limitation of mobile tool exists. It is a well known truth that information on the media like internet, facebook, or tweeter is not always reliable. Most of those who use them might have experience finding famous restaurants reviews on blogs, which sometimes exaggerate or even distort the truth; the bloggers get bribes owners of restaurants offered to draw attention of people. The misinformation of media can be found not only this example but also more like rumors about the entertainment or the government. (There are some examples for this on this site: The Rapid Spread of Misinformation Online) If the repetition of the phenomenon that people get wrong information about their travel and so get in trouble in keeping their trip goes on, it can result in bad thoughts that might let people become unwilling to travel, taking the opportunity in gaining advantages of travel away.
Those who prefer competitive can disagree with my opinion. One of the example of that is the article of Christian Eilers on dauntless-jaunter.
a person who travels to places for a quick moment is still accomplishing something, still experiencing a new destination, even if it is brief. There is no harm, and perhaps even a net positive that this form of travel can offer a person, as far as culture and education are concerned. A person who has traveled to 100 countries in a year is still going to have plenty of stories – that’s incontestable; perhaps the amount of stories can equal or surpass the stories of a person who traveled through one country in a year. One point in the favor of competitive travelers – these guys are more likely to be around people more often, as frequent journeys to and from destinations usually force one to submit to the joys that are travel transportation, such as planes. And being around people in a foreign destination is a learning experience, more times than not. Also, in just short minutes we can do many things; having a coffee break with a person I just met in there, appreciating beautiful scenery.It is right that we cannot said the devotee of competitive travel has not experienced something important or meaningful, and that they are also accomplishing something, being satisfied with watching their record of travel. How can we say, however, he or she completely enjoyed certain place even if he or she doesn't know anything about? Can a person say "I have visited New York" even though he or she just spent 10 minutes in JFK Airport for transfer? I believe dropping out cannot be a experience of real travel. Besides, they cannot deny this; competitive traveling makes people exhausted mentally and physically. As they visit many places, they may have a lot of place to remember and have to use much of their power to move another place. Considering this, we could know qualitative travel is more effective than quantitative travel.
We have start to travel with our own purposes for a long time. To achieving more effective and better travel we have made plans before traveling, and the development of technologies, especially mobile technology has influenced on the process. Although it seems a matter of characteristics to deciding which of quality or quantity we should concentrate on more in some ways, it is still true that without spending enough time in a tour place we cannot achieve better travel experience in the lack of human interaction and deep understanding, and in misinformation of media. Travel is not for being busy, but for getting relaxed and affluent in mind. I believe when people acknowledge the importance of quality in travel, they can take a step for drawing near the best travel, enjoying the advantages of travel that I mentioned. We, who love travel, should not forget that travel can be completed not with evidences that we visited there like pictures or stamps, but with the overall process of it.
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