"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 11, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-17

URL: https://youtu.be/wi7ldNgkg-Y

Greetings Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 11, 2016.

Today’s thought is by His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations.  Ban Ki-moon was born in South Korea in 1944 and was a statesman and diplomat before becoming head of the U.N.

“Tourism is the people’s building block for global peace and cultural understanding.”

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

"As well-intentioned, respectful travelers, can we really spread goodwill and understanding among those we visit in foreign lands?  How about being agents of peace?  Can we do that too?  I think we can!  And, it should be a two-way street.  Over one billion people travel abroad each year; plus the billions more who travel to far off places within their own country.  Hopefully, the cumulative effect of all those interactions makes a positive difference in the way people feel about each other, and that should make a better world for all of us."

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.