Some people believe that the best way to spend a holiday in a foreign country is to go out to meet people, instead of staying in the hotel most of the time. What is your opinion? Give reasons and include relevant examples from your own experience. - Ielts Essay

Some people believe that the best way to spend a holiday in a foreign country is to go out to meet people, instead of staying in the hotel most of the time. What is your opinion? Give reasons and include relevant examples from your own experience.

 

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Travelling overseas is an exciting, but it has been quite often observed that people tend to spend time indoors confined to their rooms, or at most the within the premises they are staying. This, as per some, is not fruitful at all, while others find it useful and present their own arguments.

Spending exorbitant amount of money on travelling abroad would be hardly of any use if the people decide stay indoors. Leaving the comfort of the hotels and expending a bit of energy can give a chance to truly rejuvenate in a completely unfamiliar environment. Even though negotiating alien surroundings and bumping into unknown faces has certain level of unpredictability, it is no less exciting to encounter something not a part of mundane routine. Exposure to new surroundings and people triggers the explorer instincts and often end up providing pleasant experiences.     

Moreover, spending extensive time outdoors, while travelling to an alien destination, also tends to provide an incomparable opportunity of experiencing heterogeneous civilizations. This also gives visitors a chance to be inquisitive; dig deep and discover different aspects of culture, language, lifestyles, cuisine, etc., of the country being visited. This can surely help getting rid of wrong notions about certain cultures and develop a broader perspective.

However, some people tend to be thrifty nowadays and for them the charm of going abroad is limited to reaching the hotel of an alien city. They believe globalization has helped erode the charisma of exploring foreign cities; similar clothing of inhabitants, buildings and shopping complexes of modular designs; same kind of cars and a familiar traffic conditions is not exciting.   

To conclude, I believe, confining one-self indoors while touring another country would be a waste of opportunity to escape the routine and monotone.