IMPACTS OF LEISURE TRAVELS ON INDIVIDUALS

This study discusses the impacts of leisure travels on individuals which is developed based on a qualitative study using a combination of qualitative survey, and in-depth interviews conducted to people who have traveled both domestic and/or international more than once. In general, travels effect individuals constructively in which leisure travel significantly impacts individuals' personal growth majoring in cognitive and affective domains; the expressions made such as to broaden life perspectives and way of thinking, promote an open mind, increase knowledge and wisdom. Change and personal growth occur by means of learning by which travels contribute and facilitate this process of individual development. Learning happens through experiences; travels facilitate opportunities to be away from the mundane, insert the element of dynamic, surprise and beyond expectation; thus, enable individuals to see matters more objectively beyond one‟s habits and traditions. As to how far thoughts, attitudes and actions are in concurrence is yet another research topic to investigate. Nonetheless, leisure travel is encouraged as a means of indulging in an intelligent leisure.


INTRODUCTION
; upon which studies on impact assessment of tourism development and destinations are commonly concentrated. This study takes its focus on the impact assessment of individual travel at personal level of the travelers. An attempt to shed light on the effects of such an activity to strive for by the majority. This urge from individuals to travel that creates demands in the industry and thus make tourism one of the biggest industries; the World Tourism Organization (WTO) predicts, there will be 1.8 billion of international travels in 2030 (UNWTO, 2014).
Only few studies that have been conducted on impacts of travels on individuals.
These for example, Tingting and McKercher (2016) studied on the returned journey made by American and Canadian having Chinese background. Zimmermann and Neyer (2013) study the impact of travels by comparing young people who travel abroad with those who do not travel on the Big Five dimensions of personality, and discover there are significant differences between the two sample groups. This study focuses on the impacts, particularly the favorable impacts felt by individuals which caused by the travels, thus make a person to continue to travel as a part of a life routine.
Tourism impact is measured in many ways. Since the unfavorable impact of mass tourism became an enormous issue in the 1970s (United Nations General Assembly, 1987;Munt, 1994;Jason 1997;Hall, 2008), the search for a more sustainable model of tourism intensified; thus, the promotion of "alternative tourism" (Eadington & Smith, 1992). Subsequently, United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) identifies sustainable tourism as "Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities" (UNWTO, 2013, p. 1).
Academics posit criteria of sustainability in tourism and develop instrument in measuring tourism. Weaver (2006) points out seven differentiating features that characterize alternative tourism, which include: market, attraction, business and accommodation, spatial, economic, and lastly regulation. Koster and Randall (2005) study the performance of tourism development, and examine its goals either to beautify the area or to pursue economic goals using eleven indicators involving heavily mainly the community and its surroundings. Travel related behaviour and activities certainly have Journal of Applied Sciences in Travel and Hospitality Volume 2, Number 1, March 2019 12 an effect on individuals as found in research conducted by Tingting and McKercher (2016). They find that because of these effects many tourists make many return journeys back to their homeland to gather more knowledge and understanding of their quest. However, this particular research focuses mainly on Chinese diaspora tourists living around North America and Canada. Studies on tourism impacts are commonly conducted on tourist destinations; yet few academic articles are available on impacts of travels on individuals as the subject of the activity.
Markman (2013) argues that personality reflects long-term goals tried to achieve by people, and summaries the "Big Five" of personality dimensions, which include: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability. It is further explained that personality is influenced by a combination of genetic/biological factors and experiences related to the individual goals. The experiences need to occur over a period of time in order to create an impact on one"s personality.
On the other hand, Bloom et al. (1956) postulate 3 domains in which learning is achieved, among those: knowledge-based, affective-based, and skill-based.
Nonetheless, a learning is fully attained with the completion of the three domains: cognitive, affective; and it ends with the performance and the practice of the knowledge within the sphere of a particular set of traits. Therefore, the ultimate learning gained from travels is fully accomplished when a "conduct" could be demonstrated at psychomotoric level. In other words, travels could change an individual at behavioral level, which is according to psychologists within the "Big Five" of personality dimensions (Markman, 2013).

METHODOLOGY
Psychologists assess personal development within the "Big Five" of personality dimensions, which include: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, obtained from travel and its impacts to their personal development, fundamentally, how travels practically influence individual. Four questions on leisure tourism were asked to respondents. The questions include: 1) What do you enjoy most about the leisure aspect of your travel? 2) The one that you look for the most in your travel, 3) How does traveling affect/impact you personally? 4) What are the learning points do you get from conducting travels for leisure?
Qualitative studies serve better when the research is at its exploration stage (Gratton and Jones 2007); whilst, according to Miles and Huberman (1994) interviews especially provide insightful information to enrich the case. These characteristics suit the purpose of this study. This research is developed based on a qualitative study using a combination of qualitative survey conducted through email, and in-depth interview as data collecting methods that are conducted to well-travelled people. A total of 42 respondents were involved in the study, the face to face in-depth interviews were used to gather more detail data, wherein the data collection was terminated when there was little additional new data was gathered from the respondents. Subsequently, data were tabulated and classified based on the themes emerged, and lastly interpreted and inferences were drawn.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
From the primary data, some themes identified. pondering which lead to a solution to problems or a higher appreciation to the current conditions.
One of the triggers of the unstoppable tourist booming is the emergence of industrial and automation era; the industrial era brought about ease of life and economic prosperity (Egmond, 2007). Nonetheless, people feel losing their connectedness and authenticity (Cohen, 1988;Steiner, & Reisinger, 2006;Cohen, 2012). Ernawati et al. (2017, p. 12110) discuss about authenticity wherein "modern people feeling alienated within their own modern environment, therefore travel in quest for authenticity". This learning about other"s culture, behaviour, and tacit knowledge. This suggests that spending time by doing intelligent leisure could be fulfilling and support personal development leading to a more contended life. It could become an essential part of maintaining human wellbeing, thus, becomes a better person in today"s high-tech and multicultural society we live in.

CONLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
It could be concluded that the effect of traveling felt by traveller majoring in positive way. In general, the respondents replied the survey questions directly and automatically in favourable way. Travel impacts individuals' personal growth, majoring in cognitive and affective domains; the expression made such as to broaden the