"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 16, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-15

URL: https://youtu.be/FPEpaSTth1k

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 16, 2016. 

It’s from Stan McGahey.  Hey, that’s me!  Well, I have worked in tourism my entire adult life, except for military service, including 25 years as an international tourism professor.  So, one day this thought just came to me when I was discussing the power of tourism with my students.

“Travel makes the world smaller, but tourism makes it larger.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“Travel makes the world smaller because thanks to the speed and affordability of modern transportation, we can go about anywhere in the world in a couple of days.  But tourism makes the world larger, because it makes available to us so many interesting places to visit and so many exciting things to do, that it’s impossible for anyone to ever enjoy them all.  Tourism has inventoried, developed, and promoted virtually every corner of every country in the world.  And, that makes for quite a bucket list!”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in January.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

January 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Seneca the Younger 
02 Chinese Proverb
03 Democritus
04 Agnes Repplier
05 Paul Theroux
06 Ralph Waldo Emerson
07 Mark Twain
08 Zhuang Zhou
09 Albert Einstein
10 William Shakespeare
11 Ban Ki-moon
12 Turkish Proverb
13 Gertrude Stein
14 (Advertisement)
15 Carl Sandburg
16 Stan McGahey
17 Buddha
18 Michael Palin
19 Shunryu Suzuki
20 Ernest Hemingway
21 Kabir
22 Freya Stark
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Nils Kjaer
25 Ed Buryn
26 (Unknown)
27 Henry David Thoreau
28 Jan Myrdal
29 Louis L’Amour
30 William Hazlitt
31 Roy Goodman

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works? View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.