Utility of Daily Routine

Special Ways of Traveling around the World

We all know that travel involves leaving for a new place, but why and how people travel varies greatly. So let’s see how some people travel!

📝Text by. Subin Cho

  • The World’s First Package Tour

    There are two major travel options: package holidays and holidays we plan ourselves. A package tour provides everything one needs, including flights, accommodation, transportation, and meals. On the other hand, for a self-planned trip somewhere, one has to search for information, compare and analyze, and make choices. So how and when did package tours start? The package tour has an interesting origin.
    Thomas Cook, an English pastor and temperance activist, launched a campaign to change the drinking habits of English laborers in 1841. Cook arranged to take a group of temperance campaigners on a tour. The group tour package included round-trip tickets from Leicester to Loughborough, meals, and sightseeing. This was the world’s first package tour. Following the first successful group tour, his package tour products became popular by word of mouth. He founded the world’s first travel agency, Thomas Cook & Son, and offered the world’s first package tour of Europe as well as short-term cruises. The Thomas Cook Group continued to expand its business to airlines, cruise ships and accommodation before it finally went bankrupt in 2019 amid increasing competition from online travel agencies. Still, Cook was clearly the frontrunner who ushered in the modern tourism era.

The Walk around the World

Another Englishman walked around the world for over twenty years to realize his dream. On November 1, 1998, Karl Bushby embarked on a walking journey around the world, taking his first steps in Britain. He set two rules before starting out on the journey: First, he would never use any vehicles, and second, he would not return home to Britain until he reached his goal. He started his long journey with the goal of walking a total of 58,000 kilometers on foot only, and continued walking for over twenty years.
In fact, he set out on this grueling challenge because he wanted to “overcome” something - he had been diagnosed with dyslexia, a reading disorder, at the age of 15. After that, his life continued on a downhill slope. However, he believed that he would be able to triumph over his problems if he could push himself to extremes and overcome every obstacle he came up against in the course of testing and reaching his limits. That is how he set off to walk around the world. And last August, he even learned to swim in order to cross the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan. No one had ever swum across the Caspian Sea before. Bushby set many new records during his great walking adventure, leaving his footsteps across the entire globe.

  • Foreigners Who Loved Korea

    Korea is one of the hottest tourist destinations right now, with K-Pop attracting tourists from all around the world to the country. But how is K-Travel captivating the hearts of people from around the world? In recent years things have changed massively in the tourism landscape of Korea. In the past, Mount Namsan, Myeongdong, and Insadong were the must-see tourist attractions. Today, pop-up stores in Seongsu-dong and Yeonnam-dong café tours have emerged as hot new attractions among young foreign tourists. Instead of trying on a traditional Korean costume, or hanbok, they get a personal color diagnosis, and rather than eating a course meal of traditional Korean dishes at a restaurant, they opt for instant noodles by the Hangang River. A growing number of accommodations are now providing a traveler’s guide containing information on the hottest local restaurants and cafes and a pop-up store map to foreign tourists.
    Changes are also evident in the kinds of souvenirs that foreign tourists take home these days. Typical souvenir items that rely heavily on traditional designs have been replaced by eco bags, mugs, and other popular goods designed with traditional Korean motifs reinterpreted through the lens of young, contemporary Korean designers. The growing popularity of souvenirs that combine tradition with a modern aesthetic sensibility shows that authentic Korean culture can appeal strongly to tourists from around the world. If your foreign friends ask you what they should do, eat, or visit, tell them what is hot right now in Korea. They will likely find what they’ve come to Korea for.

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