“Are there new ways of travelling facilitated by Instagram? Does this have the potential to enhance or diminish our travel experience?” Limitations Like many U&G studies (Ruggiero 2000), this study relied on established studies and research papers and also primary interviews. Self-reports are restrictive as they are based on the interviewee’s personal memory which can…
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Social media enhances memories and diminishes human interaction
“Are there new ways of travelling facilitated by Instagram? Does this have the potential to enhance or diminish our travel experience?” Following on from the secondary research discovered in the previous blog, I went on to conduct primary research to understand a small minority group of seasoned backpackers to understand their insights. I decided to…
Nomads, off the beaten track and squalid accommodation
Just as a reminder of my question I will be researching “Are there new ways of travelling facilitated by Instagram? Does this have the potential to enhance or diminish our travel experience?” I have chosen to concentrate on backpackers as their lifestyles are similar. According to No-Mads, a business developed by travellers who created a…
Hedonism is the aim
Read this post because you love to travel. You might want to learn how to travel. You might be too scared to travel. You are curious. You are brave. Just like my blog is titled, there is a lust for wanderlust inside you. Be a nomad. Travel is my true passion and being a millennial…
Labour Legend Tackles Technology
Labour legend, Norma Wilson, tackles not only the political upheaval of our country but also speaks out on the growing need of the elderly to be taught how to use technology. Small business, Living Connected, assists the elderly to set up and use computers whereby they remain independent, connected and engaged. Getting the interest of…
The Loneliness of Ageing
Due to an ageing and growing population, the environment is changing regarding the care provided for the elderly. Society leads a time-poor schedule and the trend in caring and simply ‘spending time’ with the elderly is decreasing at a rapid rate, and this issue is not being talked about. Due to the changing nature of…
Listening is the key to Future Growth.
I earlier wrote a blogpost about the process of ethnography which focuses on the study of people and cultures, with the aim to understand how people live. Hermann Bausinger who studies empirical culture, intelligently sums up the difficulties of the ethnographic process, stating, “A bit of wild thinking is needed to catch and describe this…
How a step back can be used as a step forward
Starting this week afresh seems more exciting than most other weeks. One of my more recent blog posts was detailing how as an epileptic I am managing to instill values of optimism and passion. I explained how I have just recently come back from 10 months of travelling abroad and despite being an epileptic for…
Passion. Persistence. Drive.
In his Commencement Speech at Kenyon college in 2005, David Foster Wallace, stated that “the important realities are the hardest to see and talk about’. And what I have realized thus far in my life, is truly learning what has meaning and what doesn’t. Wallace puts forward this point really clearly, as he claims, “it’s…
THE SIMPLE THINGS
As I was frantically running to the bus stop because I was already running late, coffee in hand, I saw something beautiful. As I was walking, about 8 people passed me coming in the opposite direction. Every single one was on their phone, noticeably texting. Heads down. They easily could have walked into me as…
Wanderlust. 