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17 interesting facts about tourism and travel in general
Here are 17 interesting facts about tourism and travel in general.
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People get out of personal comfort zone to get pleasure somewhere else. Tourists and travelers are truly amazing people.
Dennis Tito – the first space tourist
One such amazing tourist is Dennis Tito, who has dreamed of living in space for many years or at least make a trip there. At first, he was denied by NASA that thought he was not physically fit. Then he had to overcome obstacles in Russia, where Mir station, the intended destination, went down according to the terms of operation. Only in 2001, Tito was able to make a tourist visit in space on the Soyuz TM-32 spaceship – an apparatus that delivers cargo to the ISS. For the implementation of his dream, Dennis had to pay $20 million. But this amount is nothing in comparison to the emotions he received.
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Sex tourism
It turns out that sex tourism appeared a very long time ago. It became a kind of manifestation of feminism as early as the beginning of the 19th century. Women, alone or in groups, traveled abroad to indulge in pleasures with foreigners.
Affordable tours
The first affordable tour was organized by the English enthusiast Thomas Cook in 1841. He invited the poor people to ride a train, paying only one shilling for a trip. The passengers were served rolls with drinks and musicians played music for them.
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Buy gold from a machine
If you like gold jewelry, you would probably like to know that in Abu Dhabi there are machines selling gold. This is the only place in the world where this type of service is offered.
Thailand – a popular place among many travelers
Thailand is a favorite destination for many travelers. It has become a place of mass visit by tourists after the war in Vietnam. During the ongoing military operations, the soldiers of the US Army came there to rest.
Japan offers exotic pleasures
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Japan lures tourists with its various exotic offers. One of them is the creation of giant paintings from sprouts of rice. These works of art can be seen flying over the fields in a helicopter or hot air balloon.
Bringing souvenirs back
Who does not want to bring a souvenir after visiting the architectural monument of antiquity? This is especially true for tourist countries, such as Greece or Italy. In order to preserve the buildings and not offend the tourists, the museum workers of Parthenon are asked to scatter the pieces of marble at night around the territory of the museum so the tourists could bring them back.
Visiting the Chernobyl zone
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Those, who love extravagant holidays, are offered a visit to the Chernobyl zone. It was recognized as a super-extravagant tourist place, where you can see things you can see nowhere else in the world.
Hitler loved traveling
Adolf Hitler was a fervent admirer of tourism. He believed that active travels tempered people and made them real fighters.
Harry Potter’s grave in Israel
There is another attraction for guests of Israel besides historical artifacts and natural beauties. This is the grave of Harry Potter. However, the grave contains not a well-known character but an ordinary soldier of the British army who died on Israeli soil in 1939.
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You can’t visit Muslim countries after being in Israel
Tense relations between the countries in the Middle East affect the tourism business. Thus, for example, a person, whose passport has a visa to Israel, cannot visit neighboring Muslim countries, even if he has visas for them.
The biggest hotels are in the USA
The largest hotels are built in the USA. In total, there are two dozen of them. Of these largest hotel complexes, seventeen are located in Las Vegas.
Protesting against the bourgeois environment
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a trend appeared among the rich young people. It was called wandering schoolchildren. It was a protest against the bourgeois environment in which they grew up. Young people traveled to places with a harsh climate and difficult conditions for survival. This way, they tried to express themselves and feel the essence of real life. Find out more about this trend on the essay writing help service.
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Unusual things people forget in hotels
One of the most unusual items forgotten by visitors to the hotels was an urn with ashes. A man who brought the remains of his spouse to disperse them to over a memorable place forgot the urn in a hotel. Being afraid that he would not have time to reach his destination at rush hour, he hastily left the urn on the windowsill. He returned after it an hour later.
Wedding hassle
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Wedding turmoil makes you forget not only flowers or rings but also your own children. One young couple once forgot their eight-month-old baby in a hotel room, thinking that relatives had already taken him. Seeing the absence of the baby, they immediately returned.
Zoo on the contrary
You can feel yourself a resident of the zoo at the Oran Zoo in New Zealand. Here, the visitors to the zoo are lions. Animals live as in a natural environment, on an area of 80 hectares. Extremals are placed in a cage and taken out in a van to the territory of the lions. Curious predators encircle the aviary from all sides.
Hotels made of salt
The world’s largest solonchak area of more than 10 thousand square kilometers, which appeared on the site of the dried-up Lake Uyuni, is in Bolivia. There are several hotels built entirely of salt on the territory. Not only the walls of the hotel are made of salt, but also furniture, and other items. The administration strictly forbids lodgers to lick their temporary possessions because this can cause irreparable harm.
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