A short
reflection on how the industry I am passionate about changed my home and
me.
Travel and Tourism have this incredible power
of reshaping places, influence ideas, bring innovation to all life areas and
the most fascinating is that it has power to change people.
The case I want to bring to your attention is
of my home, Moldova. Republic of Moldova, located in Eastern Europe is a small
in area country but rich in traditions, history, hard-working people and landscapes.
This was basically all I could mention in the first place for several years
now.
Tourism has changed the way I see things, but
also it changed the things I was looking at. Speaking in terms of tourism,
Moldova has never been an important inbound or outbound country. History from
one side promoted the biggest part of inbound tourism, and the visa regulations
restricted to the fullest the outbound part. I am happy to say that one way or
another Moldovans found a way to travel and this is where the history and the
change actually start.
The great and untouchable but visible power
that traveling has is the change it makes in people. I know what happened because
the same change happened to me 4 years ago. We escaped as birds from a small
cage where we had sufficient things to survive but not the essential thing to
live: freedom. Traveling is all about freedom; Freedom to move, to choose, to
see, to say, to meet and so many more things that it is impossible to mention
it all in one sentence.
About the community development. We are at its
first stage, but the most important one. People. Through traveling we are
developing people, we are developing good, kind, correct and fair people. I can
see now myself, my friends and my community open-minded, thinking out of the
box all the time, perceiving things with optimism and with big aims that are no
longer just dreams. In Moldova no one is dreaming anymore. In Moldova we are
aiming at the future and we are living with the present. Our present is still
poor, but our culture enriched even more. There aren´t many things changed yet,
but as I said, freedom - which is traveling, changes dreams into aims, and Moldovans
surely know how to reach them.
By traveling we are changing as people, we are
developing our global community and we are acquiring a global culture, a
culture I believe in. The question is: how are we going to use it?
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