It has been long that I've posted anything on this blog, maybe I'm too busy watching movies, arguing with roommates, reading useless books, following unknown people on twitter or wasting time at work preparing project reports only to be ultimately rejected. But finally something has now been posted here.
The idea of holidays & vacation brings joy on everyone's face from children to adults, from home makers to businessmen - just about everyone. I'm going to take a break of around 4 days from work next week and that triggered this post.
For me and a lot of others who stay in a different city away from their parents for work, holidays mean family time visiting my hometown and enjoy food made by my mother and aunties. Once a year, we visit hill stations like Mahabaleshwar where we spend time in a hotel and visit a few prominent places coupled with good food. But the idea has always been to relax and enjoy the delicious food available at the place. With friends, holidays have been visiting a place and chit chatting for hours together.
In short, my idea of a holiday or an outing for the weekend has always been spending quiet time with others and enjoy good food either at home or another place.
However, the idea of holiday now seems to be changing atleast in urban India - weekend treks, adventure sports, beaches, etc now seem to be the way to spend long weekends or holidays. Weekends are planned well in advance and people try to visit maximum places possible in a short span of time. As such a lot of time is wasted travelling and not much on spending quiet time. The inclination is more towards high exertion trips packed with long journeys, adventure sports trying to get unique experiences during the trips.
Yes and the focus is capturing photographs (fit to be used as dps and cover pics) rather than enjoying the beauty around. The tendency to capture more and more of ourselves into the digital media rather than going alongwith the flow of the place is on a rise since the advent of facebook. Not that I'm complaining but stating observation.
The point is that the idea of a weekend holiday is changing rapidly in India, especially urban India and marketeers of travel plans have a great opportunity by creating customized offerings.
However, for me, the old boring style of holiday in a good hotel with family and friends and good food is the right way.
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The idea of holidays & vacation brings joy on everyone's face from children to adults, from home makers to businessmen - just about everyone. I'm going to take a break of around 4 days from work next week and that triggered this post.
For me and a lot of others who stay in a different city away from their parents for work, holidays mean family time visiting my hometown and enjoy food made by my mother and aunties. Once a year, we visit hill stations like Mahabaleshwar where we spend time in a hotel and visit a few prominent places coupled with good food. But the idea has always been to relax and enjoy the delicious food available at the place. With friends, holidays have been visiting a place and chit chatting for hours together.
In short, my idea of a holiday or an outing for the weekend has always been spending quiet time with others and enjoy good food either at home or another place.
However, the idea of holiday now seems to be changing atleast in urban India - weekend treks, adventure sports, beaches, etc now seem to be the way to spend long weekends or holidays. Weekends are planned well in advance and people try to visit maximum places possible in a short span of time. As such a lot of time is wasted travelling and not much on spending quiet time. The inclination is more towards high exertion trips packed with long journeys, adventure sports trying to get unique experiences during the trips.
Yes and the focus is capturing photographs (fit to be used as dps and cover pics) rather than enjoying the beauty around. The tendency to capture more and more of ourselves into the digital media rather than going alongwith the flow of the place is on a rise since the advent of facebook. Not that I'm complaining but stating observation.
The point is that the idea of a weekend holiday is changing rapidly in India, especially urban India and marketeers of travel plans have a great opportunity by creating customized offerings.
However, for me, the old boring style of holiday in a good hotel with family and friends and good food is the right way.
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