The difference between "travelling" and "going on holiday"?

[jæd]

Pre-thumbed Lonely Planet guides and authentic dreadlocks are available to assist in the presenting the authenticity of your traveller status.

I once read the Lonely Planet Shoestring Guide to India. It took quite a while, and at one point I nearly dehydrated...! Does that count...?

 

[cuban pete]

This is my rule of thumb. However, if anyone ever tells me they've 'done' anywhere I instantly smack them in the mouth and never listen to anything they say, ever agin.

yeah or ask them ''...as in Debbie Does Dallas?''

 

[lobster]

Romani people travel, refuges travel .

Going on a short weekend brake or spending two years in Australia is still a holiday.

When your away on holiday its something you do for fun weather its sleeping on a bench or a five star hotel.

 

[Skim]

Holidaymakers go to places; travellers "do" them.

 

[ChrisFilter]

ermmm

travelling = going from place to place
holiday = staying in one place

I've never heard someone say they've gone travelling when they've just gone on a noncing holiday to Bangkok?

How many nonces do you know who holiday in Thailand?!

 

[fela fan]

Crispy's definition is the best. Yer on holiday if you're still working in your home country. You're travelling if you quit your job. Obviously that would typically mean just about two weeks for the holiday coz your wage payers / slave drivers want you back under their thumb, while if you quit your job you've got all the time and freedom (from those bastard employers) you want to travel while the money doesn't run out.

Another fact seems to be that some of those who only get holidays love to aim their envy and cynicism towards those that travel with heavy british barbs and sarcasm.

 

[Sunray]

No difference except

Holiday makers are easily spottable because they are desperately trying to have a nice time at 1000 miles an hour and missing the point entirely.

Traveller = Someone in the hammock in paradise on a remote island reading a book for 3 days straight having a great time as they don't have any bills or modern day stress while have someone cook you great food every single day.

 

[Fledgling]

Online definition of travelling is simply going from one place to another, although "travels" indicate a series of journies. I'd agree with that.

Travelling definitions vary widely, though there are several boxes you have to tick if you mention the word travelling in certain circles:

Meeting "genuine" local people

Possession of friendship bracelets and necklaces (these can be purchased from outdoor shops though)

Staying in hostels

The most important box to be ticked is an instantaneous recollection of every country you have been to (though you don't have to know ANYTHING WHATSOEVER about each country, the point is you have been there)

In Australia you are considered a traveller if you sit on a "wacky" tour bus for "independent" travellers. "real" travellers (fascist snobby wankers) wouldn't even talk to people who had done that. It isn't independent but it is a journey all the same.

So I like the basic definition because we can all subsrcibe to it, and not have to put up with "real" travellers or anti-travellers (who moan and usually try and slip the words middle class into their condescensions).

 

[Poi E]

All tourism. Next!

 

[dada]

Travellers.

Travelling is generally done by people with money, going off to far off places in the world & pretending they don't have any. Travellers are apparently able to either not work, or take months off work without having to worry about going home and paying the bills.

Ideally travelling should involve catching some exotic disease, sleeping with interesting breeds of insect & eating unspeakable things. It helps a lot of you have a really up your own arse attitude to anyone else who isn't doing the same thing as you, and preferably you should be able to report back on your travels as having done something more 'real' and 'authentic' than anyone other 'travellers' you meet.

You will automatically shun anyone staying in clean hotels as 'tourists', just because they have inclinations towards reasonable standards of personal hygiene, drink bottled water and are happy to live within the limitations of their travel visa. Despite such tourists having had the bravery to step outside the box and go somewhere challenging and interesting, their ability to use a credit card in decent restaurant makes them a less worthy person for you, and you can despise them for their excessive carbon footprint while being oblivious to your own.

You will sneer at their generous contributions to the local economy as they buy souvenirs and go on daytrips organised by people who know what they're doing. You will also sneer at local people who earn themselves a feeble living by educating and informing visitors about their history and culture. You, on theother hand, can happily leech off local poor people, abusing their generosity & hospitality by taking food from their table and offering nothing but a hug of their trees and a mention in your blog.

You will look down on tourist holiday snaps, preferring your own photojournal.

Any kind of physical effort will automativally be referred to as 'trekking', which normal people would describe as 'going for a walk'.

Pre-thumbed Lonely Planet guides and authentic dreadlocks are available to assist in the presenting the authenticity of your traveller status.

right on!!!

and see the same pattern for those who do charity work in so-called third world countries too.

hypocrites.

 

[Calva dosser]

All hail Superape.

Said it all.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

istanbul is constantinople la la la

S'Byzantium, noob. Or possibly even Miklagard.

 

[quimcunx]

Travelling has to be more than a month and involve more than 4 seperate centres.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Travelling=coming back and boring all your mates rigid with your tales of derring do, exploration, hiking etc etc and really really getting to know the local characters

Holidaying=coming back and boring all your mates rigid with your photos of us on the beach, in the bar, etc etc and really really getting to know the local bar staff