JourneyLearning: - Your journey guide

A little tact will get you invited back

You don't have to be the life of the party to dazzle your hosts--they'll be much more impressed if you make your bed and offer to help with the dishes.

In many ways, hosts and overnight guests are engaged in a game of cat and mouse. For example, it would be rude for a host to ask you to clean up after yourself, yet it would be rude for you not to. Thoughtfulness and tact are essential ingredients of hospitality, for both those who give it and those who receive it. (more...)

Take the road less traveled

Tourism is a huge business worldwide. Sometimes it's a city or country's biggest industry, in fact. This travel boom has led to an amazing proliferation of tourist traps--spots intended to attract vast numbers of visitors and relieve them of excess cash. This often involves either the selling of a superficial, prepackaged version of local culture, or the creation of a more or less phony "attraction." (more...)