[Little essay] Factors contributing to the increase in international travel In the last 25 years, the amount of people who travel to other countries rather than their own has been increasingly getting bigger. Either for leisure or business we will discuss briefly in the following lines the reasons why this phenomenon is happening. First, we have to take into account that most of the countries have started to offer different kind of passes making getting around local areas easier. For instance, in the Japanese case the “JR Pass” offers better prices for foreigners than local people to use the local trains. Also the number of low cost airlines skyrocketed so that now is cheaper to fly to other countries close to each other. Secondly, the effect of globalization through the movies, TV and the Internet. Lots of people have developed a love of others cultures through their movies, TV shows or music. In the past this was by far more difficult due to the lack of the means we have nowadays. For instance, if you wanted to watch TV show you had to wait for a local TV network to buy the rights and even worse in the Spanish case you had to wait they dubbed the show. Whereas now you can follow all the TV shows wherever they are from, almost at the same moment they are released. To sum up, from my view we are prone to live in a global society where everyone could afford and enjoy travelling to other countries. This hopefully will result in a common enrichment for everyone by getting to know different cultures and languages. [Thanks in advance for reading]