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Travel is the change in location
Location (geography)

In geography, location is a position or point in physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface. An reality location can often be designated using a specific pairing of latitude and longitude, a Cartesian coordinate system grid , a Spherical coordinate system, or an ellipsoid-based system ....
 of people on a trip through the means of transport
Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of passenger and cargo from one location to another. Transport is performed by various modes of transport, such as aviation, rail transport, road transport, ship transport, cable transport, pipeline transport and space transport....
 from one location to another. Travel is most commonly for recreation
Recreation

Recreation or fun is the expenditure of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner....
 (as part of tourism
Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
 or to visit friends and family), for business
Business trip

A business trip or official trip is a travel/journey caused by business necessities. The place of employment is left transitionally, e.g....
 or for commuting
Commuting

Commuting is regular travel between one's place of residence and place of work or full time study. Institutions that have few dormitory or near-campus student housing are called commuter schools in the United States....
; but may be for numerous other reasons, such as migration, fleeing war, etc. Travel may occur by walking
Walking

Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on Earth, distinguished from running and crawling . When carried out in shallow waters, it is usually described as wading and when performed over a steeply rising object or an obstacle it becomes scrambling or climbing....
 or human-powered mode
Human-powered transport

Human-powered transport is the transport of person and/or goods using human muscle power. Like animal-powered transport, human-powered transport has existed since time immemorial in the form of walking, running and swimming....
, or through mechanical vehicle
Vehicle

Vehicles, derived from the Latin word, vehiculum, are non-living means of transport. Most often they are manufactured , although some other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks....
s, either as private
Private transport

Private transport, as opposed to public transport, is transport in one's own vehicle , or through self-power . Private transport differs from public in that it lacks timetables and fixed itineraries....
 or public transport
Public transport

Public transport comprises passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use such as automobiles or vehicles for hire....
.

Travel may be local, regional, national or international.






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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Natalie Goldberg

Don't listen to what they say. Go see.

Chinese proverb

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.

Mohammed

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

Saint Augustin (354-430)

He who strays discovers new paths.

Nils Kjær

I had seen a little and knew a lot. Now I've seen a little more and know a lot less.

Micah MacAllen





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Travel is the change in location
Location (geography)

In geography, location is a position or point in physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface. An reality location can often be designated using a specific pairing of latitude and longitude, a Cartesian coordinate system grid , a Spherical coordinate system, or an ellipsoid-based system ....
 of people on a trip through the means of transport
Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of passenger and cargo from one location to another. Transport is performed by various modes of transport, such as aviation, rail transport, road transport, ship transport, cable transport, pipeline transport and space transport....
 from one location to another. Travel is most commonly for recreation
Recreation

Recreation or fun is the expenditure of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner....
 (as part of tourism
Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
 or to visit friends and family), for business
Business trip

A business trip or official trip is a travel/journey caused by business necessities. The place of employment is left transitionally, e.g....
 or for commuting
Commuting

Commuting is regular travel between one's place of residence and place of work or full time study. Institutions that have few dormitory or near-campus student housing are called commuter schools in the United States....
; but may be for numerous other reasons, such as migration, fleeing war, etc. Travel may occur by walking
Walking

Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on Earth, distinguished from running and crawling . When carried out in shallow waters, it is usually described as wading and when performed over a steeply rising object or an obstacle it becomes scrambling or climbing....
 or human-powered mode
Human-powered transport

Human-powered transport is the transport of person and/or goods using human muscle power. Like animal-powered transport, human-powered transport has existed since time immemorial in the form of walking, running and swimming....
, or through mechanical vehicle
Vehicle

Vehicles, derived from the Latin word, vehiculum, are non-living means of transport. Most often they are manufactured , although some other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks....
s, either as private
Private transport

Private transport, as opposed to public transport, is transport in one's own vehicle , or through self-power . Private transport differs from public in that it lacks timetables and fixed itineraries....
 or public transport
Public transport

Public transport comprises passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use such as automobiles or vehicles for hire....
.

Travel may be local, regional, national or international. In some countries, non-local internal travel may require an internal passport
Internal passport

An internal passport is an identity document that can be compared to identity card used in some countries to control the internal movement and residence of people....
, while international travel typically requires a passport
Passport

A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder....
 and visa
Visa (document)

A visa is an indication that a person is authorized to enter the country which "issued" the visa, subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry....
.

The word originates from the Middle English
Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
 word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the Anglo-French
Anglo-French

Anglo-French is a term that may be used in several contexts:*Nationality, e.g. a person with one English parent and one French parent may be said to be Anglo-French...
 word travailler ("travail"). A person who travels is called a traveler (US) or traveller (UK).

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