Almost all of humankind love to travel. Traveling is one of the dictates of man’s genetics. We have been nomads from Adam’s days. It’s just that technological advancements have transformed us into becoming savvy travelers. Pleasure, education, business, adventure, even criminal hood (fleeing fugitives comprise 25% of the traveling population) incite our need and stimulus to travel.
Our travel habits and idiosyncrasies have caused it so that travel and tourism have become the nation’s second largest services export industry, third largest retail sales industry and one of America’s largest employers. After 9/11, people got comfortable traveling again, resuscitating the travel industry that now rakes in more than $600 billion into the nation’s economy, directly providing more than 7 million U.S. jobs and continues to be an economic generator. Who would not want to partake of the gravy and all the accompanying adjuncts that travel yields?
