{"id":6901,"date":"2017-05-22T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T19:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:51:01","slug":"5-health-benefits-of-traveling-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/5-health-benefits-of-traveling-abroad","title":{"rendered":"5 health benefits of traveling abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Explorica, we are extremely passionate about two things: travel and education.<\/p>\n<p>Our vision is to create a better world by enriching every student with a cultural experience through educational travel, because we truly believe that traveling creates better global citizens. Students who travel at a young age are extremely lucky, and are set up for success later in life!<\/p>\n<p>Since we started in 2000, we have always said that travel is good for the body, mind, and soul. Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> released a report relating to American travel habits. They reported that Americans are only half as likely as Europeans to go abroad, and cited scientifically proven health benefits of traveling abroad.\u00a0Here are a few highlights of the study, which you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/better\/wellness\/5-scientifically-proven-health-benefits-traveling-abroad-n759631\" target=\"_blank\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Travel can:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make you healthier<\/li>\n<li>Relieve stress<\/li>\n<li>Enhance your creativity<\/li>\n<li>Boost happiness and satisfaction<\/li>\n<li>Lower the risk of depression<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Got the travel bug yet? Check out our most popular destinations now, and start planning your next trip!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/european-tours.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">European classics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/latin-american-tours.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/make-a-difference.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Make a Difference tours <\/a>(volunteer travel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Explorica, we are extremely passionate about two things: travel and education. Our vision is to create a better world by enriching every student with a cultural experience through educational travel, because we truly believe that traveling creates better global citizens. Students who travel at a young age are extremely lucky, and are set <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/5-health-benefits-of-traveling-abroad\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6902,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}