Why Travel (为何要旅游).ppt

Do you like to travel around? Which are you favorite places for sightseeing? What do you want to see during your trip? Why do many people like to travel? Reasons To broaden your horizons. To provide some excitement and an escape from the hum drum of “ordinary” life. To see the world beyond your four corners. To recharge your batteries. To challenge yourself. To meet interesting and like-minded people. To experience new cultures and lifestyles. To have some fun. Benefits Health Benefits Relationship, Educational, and Cultural Benefits Career and Productivity Benefits Taj Mahal 1. Health Benefits “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.” Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist Taking vacations can improve health in several measurable ways. For example: An annual vacation can cut a person’s risk of heart attack by 50 percent. Middle-aged men at high risk for coronary heart disease who take frequent annual vacations are 21% less likely to die of any cause and 32% less likely to die of coronary heart disease. 3. Blood pressure, heart rate, and levels of epinephrine (肾上腺素) are likely to decline on holidays. 4. Warmer and sunnier vacations can greatly reduce work stress. 5. Travelers get three times more deep sleep after their vacation. 6. Leisure has been found to contribute to helping people maintain both their physical and mental health. 2. Relationship, Educational,  and Cultural Benefits “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry(偏执,顽固), and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain 1. Women who take more vacations are more satisfied with their marriages. A. At least 4 out of 10 travelers feel more romantic on vacation (42%). B. Over half of employed Americans say they come back feeling reconnected more intimately with