Those who consider exotic experience as key to success might say that traveling to foreign countries is more benefit for people than traveling in their own country. However, I do not agree with the statement: people can acquire merits of travel more from traveling in their own nation than from traveling to abroad nations. There are two major reasons: to acquire how much information is and to cost how much money is.
First, when it comes to absorbing information in terms of the quantity, traveling own nation is better than traveling oversea countries. Some people might say that oversea trip makes people to learn more information than their home land trip. However, from the level of language skill to the method of traveling, oversea trip make it for people to meet restricted information. Since almost all people are not skillful foreign language, what they speak to is not many. They only say that ‘How much is it?’ ‘Where are you from?’. It is in home country through books and Internet services that people should absorb an information of oversea countries. In addition, when people do foreign travel, the itinerary tends to be determined by others. For example, in north Korea, people who travel there only show Pyoungyang, thereby they cannot see starving north Korean who are shown in many T.V programs. Traveling abroad counties has a tendency to make people not understand the true image of oversea countries but consider manipulated image as the true image.
Moreover, as far as cost of trips is concerned, foreign travel is inferior to homeland travel. In a sense, it is true that the price level of developing or undeveloped counties is lower than the price level of developed country. However, this price level is for dominants, rather than for traveler. In republic of Korea, many tourist often come to there not only to see the traditions of Korea but also to buy goods and services. However, the price of the goods and services travelers buy is more expensive than those of what Koreans generally buy. Travelers purchase what Koreans decide to buy rather than what Koreans really use. Besides, although domestic people sell the same good they generally buy to foreign travelers, domestic people deceive oversea travelers to make gains. Since oversea travelers do not know how much taxi price is or how much beverages are, they follow domestic people’s indication about prices of goods. We need to look no further than China. In China, there are a number of expensive mountain ginsengs not for domestic people but for foreign people. Since mountain ginsengs are very rare, it could not be a number of things.
In conclusion, I do not agree that the oversea travel is better than homeland travel. That is because, in the lights of the quantity of information and cost, homeland travel has more merits than abroad countries travel. |