Health service doctors should be able to prescribe it before starting a treatment with pills.
There is a lot of evidence that proves that vacations are emotional and physical well-being. A study on the effects on senior travelers of the It is sealed in Chile, carried out by the Geriatrics and Gerontology Unit of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, indicates that traveling makes them feel independent and increases their social integration. Another study of the company Novojet Chile regarding these same passengers indicates that making plans, resting, sharing and discovering makes them feel visible once more and also gives them the sensation of living intensely in a stage of life in which making long-term plans is full of uncertainties and fears. 70% of the passengers on this program remain in contact with the group with which they traveled, and the fact is that the trace of the trip remains once we have unpacked and returned to our lives. Older adults in Wallonia reflect the same positive effects, according to a study from the renowned Belgian doctor in tourism Anya Diekmann.
Seniors are not the only ones who are good at traveling, this antidote to sadness has effects on all ages regardless of the culture in which we grew up. the japanese Miyakawa & Oguchi studied that family trips have positive effects on the well-being of parents and develop skills in children. According to the Finns Vento et al. travel increases life satisfaction, mental health and social life. The National Holiday Check Agency from France, sees trips for adolescents as a tool to generate motivation in them and develop soft skills that facilitate their social integration.
An Australian foundation called Magical Getaway Foundation found that one in three children in Australia has never gone on holiday. Focused on families with cases of domestic violence, which have increased considerably during the pandemic to overwhelm them, they give the experience of making a family travel for the first time in their lives to fill them with hope. There are already many cases in which they have verified how a trip increases the school integration of children, improves family relationships and even increases the labor insertion of many of the mothers. Tourism gives hope and an optimistic vision of the future, which serves as an engine to face our day to day with another perspective.
More locally, our beloved actor Dani Rovira published a post on his Instagram that said: Travel. Travel whenever you can. Be it far away or just around the corner. To understand, to learn and unlearn, to value, to open our minds, to know, to blur our brain boundaries, to move away from fundamentalisms, to enlarge our inner homeland. And because life is a miracle. It would be a shame to waste it for not wanting to leave our four mental walls. ♥️
Without a doubt there is a #positivetourism and from the THIS, International Tourism Organization for all, supportive and sustainable, we support tourism that does good, that of people for people, that which contributes to the quality of life of both those who travel and those who receive it. That tourism that is not mass tourism, the one that gives you the time to look people in the eye and take something new with you forever. That tourism that does not require thirty hours by plane, because that benefit for you and yours is much closer than you think.
At a time when the climate emergency makes us rethink our lifestyle and demands changes in it, let us agree that tourism must not only remain but must be more accessible to all people, yes, not just any tourism, one more humane, more sensible and that cares for people while preserving our planet.
