5 Streotypes About Traveler

5 Streotypes About Traveler

Travelers are a unique group of people that are both admired and sneered at. Almost everyone wants to travel extensively, but only a handful of people actually do. Some travelers choose to live and work abroad for years at a time. Just like we have preconceived notions and stereotypes of the places we travel to, locals (at home and abroad) have developed colorful traveler stereotypes. No, not every traveler is a tacky tourist— in fact, we generally pride ourselves on shattering travel stereotypes like that.

#1. 

TRAVELERS ARE ARROGANT.

Some people think it’s arrogant to start every sentence with, “Well, when I was teaching abroad in Phuket…”. For them, it’s like you want to tell them about what you do is too ‘awesome’. So, it looks like you to show them that you have a lot of experience. What people need to know is don’t easily judge the travelers because they have their own experience and they feel it.

#2.

TRAVELERS HAVE A LOT OF MONEY.

If someone can afford to spend a year in Europe, they must be well-off. Between the plane ticket, accommodations, international program fees, and endless weekend excursions, OBVIOUSLY all travelers are totally loaded. But, we don’t know about their hobby or addiction.

#3. 

TRAVELERS DON’T WORK

One of the more pernicious traveler stereotypes is that travelers have poor work ethic because they spend all of their time seeing the world rather than climbing up the corporate ladder. But we must think their sacrifice and hard work to collect their money to go travel.

#4. 

IT’S EASY FOR TRAVELERS TO GET UP AND GO.

Classic travel myths paint travelers as free-spirited world wanderers who don’t have any important relationships or responsibilities to tie them down. People will look at them in awe and say, “Wow, I wish I could just get up and go like that.”

#5. 

TRAVELERS ARE AVOIDING THE “REAL WORLD.”

Too many people scoff at travelers as people who are just avoiding responsibilities and the daily routine of “the real world.” But, in the other side, we should know travelers have a lot of responsibility also.