Home Tags Travel

Tag: travel

World Tourism Day 2018 Theme: International Tourism Day Quotes

By
Vasavi
-

World Tourism Day 2018: Fed up with the daily life or searching for your inner self or want to explore the world. So, travelling is the first and best option to discover yourself. Tourism explore us to see the world in a unique way. Many of us prefer solo travelling, because it’s thrilling and also helps us discover the true inner self. So, pack your bags and take your first step to know more about World Tourism Day, which is celebrated on 27th September every year, and the theme keeps evolving each year.

International Tourism Day was first celebrated in the year 1980 in the United States by the World Tourism Organisation. Every year one country will host and act as an Organisation partner in the celebrations of the Day with different World Tourism Day theme.

The purpose of celebrating this day is to raise the awareness and importance of the tourism within the international community and how it effects in the social, cultural, political and economic values throughout the world.

The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) invites people worldwide to participate in the World Tourism Day on 27th September every year. The Secretary General of UNWTO sends a message to the general public to mark World Tourism Day.

Many tourism enterprises, organisations, government agencies celebrate this day with special events and festivities. Different types competitions such as photography in the tourism as well as tourism award presentations will be conducted on this day.

Thailand and Qatar were selected to be the official host countries for World Tourism Day in 2016 and 2017 respectively by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, and in 2018, World Tourism Day would be celebrated on 27 September in Budapest, Hungary, under the theme Tourism and the digital transformation.

World Tourism Day 2016 Theme was Tourism for All – promoting universal accessibility and 2017 is celebrated with Sustainable Tourism – a tool for development.

Thailand has been a member of UNWTO since 1975 and is represented by many of UNWTO committees.Tourism has experienced continued growth and complete diversification to become the fastest economic sector in the world because of attractive and new destinations for the tourists. This has become the main source of the income for many developing countries.

This day is celebrated with a particular theme every year to raise the awareness from all over the world. The list of different World Tourism Day themes is as follows.

  • Theme of 2008 was “Tourism Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change and global warming”.
  • Theme of 2009 was “Tourism – Celebrating Diversity”.
  • Theme of 2010 was “Tourism & Biodiversity”.
  • Theme of 2011 was “Tourism Linking Cultures”.
  • Theme of 2012 was “Tourism and Energetic Sustainability”.
  • Theme of 2013 was “Tourism and Water: Protecting our Common Future”.
  • Theme of 2014 was “Tourism and Community Development”.
  • Theme of 2015 was “Millions of tourists, millions of opportunities”.
  • Theme of 2016 was “Tourism for All – promoting universal accessibility”.
  • Theme of 2017 was “Sustainable Tourism – a tool for development”.
  • Theme of 2018 is “Tourism and the digital transformation”

World Tourism Day Quotes

  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert
  • “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” -Ray Bradbury
  • “Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant ‘idiot’.” -Terry Pratchett
  • “The journey is the destination.” -Dan Eldon
  • “In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.” -Tahir Shah
  • “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” » Aldous Huxley
  • “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”- Shirley MacLaine
  • “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” - Samuel Johnson
  • “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca

Indian Railways Now Allows Booking the Short Distance Tickets on Long Distance Trains

By
Ravi
-

As per the recent announcement, Railway Minister has lifted the restrictions on issuing the short distance tickets for the Sleeper and Ac coaches of the long distance trains. Earlier, short distance passengers are not allowed to get the reservation in Mail and the Express trains for the longer distance routes.

Indian Railways is having long distance routes and short distance train routes. The users are now allowed to book the train tickets from anywhere to anywhere since it is computerised. The main reason behind this new announcement is, for the long distance trains a large number of berths are booked for the short travel. This leads in affecting the seat availability for the long distance travellers. To avoid this distance restriction, this new scheme has introduced.

IRCTC Introduces New App Rail Connect with Advanced Security Features

According to one of the Senior Railway Officer says “This would often force a passenger intending to travel to closer stations to book a ticket for a longer distance.”

According to the notice dated Jan 5,2017 this decision is applicable for only the reserved class, and the status Quo can prevail for the second class travel for preventing further over-crowding in the latter.

Study Says: Millennials Use Mobile Phones To Ignore People During Holiday Trips

By
Vasavi
-

A new study reveals that Millennials use their mobile phones to avoid conversations during a holiday get-together.Yes, what you read is exactly correct.According to the survey, smartphones are more friendly and helpful than people around us.

According to the Bank of America’s Trends In Consumer Mobility Report, a study that explored mobile behaviours and trends among adults consumers around the country - around 40 percent of the millennials use phones to ignore people during a vacation.

Study Reveals “People Can’t Stay Without Touching their Smartphones for more than 44 seconds.”

Most of us think that the future generation is just addicted to their mobile gadgets, but NO! Very interestingly they use their devices to move away from you and enjoy their individuality. Most of the unwanted conversations from the friends or someone around are cleverly ignored with the use of mobile devices. So, now decide yourself whether to pity or admire these geniuses.

The research was carried out on 1,004 American adults between March 29 and April 12. And the result of the survey says that 25 percent of the surveyed adults accepted that they use phones to avoid people. The survey also revealed many facts like sixty-six percent of the Americans depend entirely on their electronic gadgets, especially mobiles for directions. And 53 percent of them say that they trust their devices for directions more than their loved ones.

Lumigon T3 World’s First Night Vision Camera Smartphone with Ultra Stylish Iconic Design  

Young-people is sick of selfies!! Isn’t it? Not exactly true, as ninety-three percent of the millennials, admit that they take selfies, but so did fifty percent of the seniors, 61 percent of the baby boomers too. So, this clearly says that these little devices rule and they can be a definite replacement for both family and friends.

News

EDITOR PICKS

POPULAR POSTS

POPULAR CATEGORY

© Techfactslive.com. All rights reserved.
Casino Utan Svensk Licens med trustly / bankID 2021