Blog 7: Feels the local
with Rural Tourism
When
you think about tourism, you may think of some place to be fun or some place to
be extreme. The prize of the enjoyment is what we call impact of tourism,
especially the negative impact. The increasing of tourist’s number causes the
increasing of problem, such as environment, social and culture. But you can
choose to travel without destroy environment, social and culture, which is
“Rural Tourism”.
Rural
Tourism is a type of conservation tourism, which sees the local people, is the
owner of environment, social, or culture. It means tourism will not destroy the
local things. People still do their usual work and have usual life along with warm
welcome to tourist. They welcome tourists as their guests or even family
guests, not just a tourist. Tourists may stay in home stay and spend life as
local people.
When I
was 10th grade, I got a chance to go to USA as an AFS exchange
student for one year. I lived in Portland, Oregon state with my host dad “Richard”,
my host mom “Barbara”, and my host siblings “Freckles”, “Erin”, “Cara” and “Tazio”
which are one dog and three cats. I learned to live with them in American style
who loves their pets as their children. I went to hiking, watching stage plays,
eating in local restaurants (since, my host family ban fast food), doing family
activities with them. While I lived with them, I helped them some house works
and spent time with them as a member of their family. Also, I went to Franklin
High School and studied there with my American friends. I studied usual
classes, and I jointed school activities such as musical play and dance team.
To be conclude, the core of being
an exchange student is you go to abroad to learn new culture and learn how to live with it, and
you bring your own culture to present other people. We exchange culture by
culture. I got to know American culture and even their local attitude toward
things. Rural tourism is also the way to learn new culture, new life by your
own experience. This is a fun way to spend your life in the different world,
and this will make you growth.
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