Tag: Benefits of Travel

Mental Health and Vacations: The Search for Serotonin

Everyone loves a vacation. Whether you plan to relax close to home, head somewhere tropical, or go on an off-the-beaten-path adventure, a vacation can be the best way to naturally boost your serotonin.  Nowadays, issues like burnout, stress, and low mental health seem to be running rampant. Work stress is causing people to experience anxiety…

Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Take a Low-Key Holiday

The past 18 months have been some of the most challenging and unexpected in recent memory for every single one of us. Now that things are beginning to return to something like normal, we are once again thinking about taking a holiday. While it might be tempting to aim for a dream getaway, that might…

Benefits of Using Vacation Days & Taking a Break

(CNN) — Workers in the United States left a record number of vacation days on the table last year, equating to billions in lost benefits, according to research from the U.S. Travel Association, Oxford Economics and Ipsos. A total of 768 million days went unused in 2018, a 9% increase from 2017. If you’re anything…

Why It’s Important to Travel

The reasons to travel are endless, which is why the desire to travel the world has been present for as long as we’ve been on this earth! Yes, some of this travel may have been out of necessity… but all throughout history humans have always been curious to see what lies over the horizon. Today,…

Changing Our Travel Dialogue

You might have seen my latest IGTV, on changing our travel dialogue, but in case you missed it – and it bears repeating – I had seen a commercial where an athlete and another guy were chatting while lying on a hood of a car. The athlete looks to the other guy and says “man, you…

The EPIC Ways: How Travel Changes Our Lives

At Wild Bum we get ridiculously excited over the positive impact that travel has on our lives. Not only does it alter our interpersonal relationship but also our friendships, stress levels, how we show up in the workplace and so much more. These Wild Bum Guide Architects want to share how travel has changed their…