Travel

Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. Reasons for travel include:

• Tourism—travel for recreation. This may apply to the travel itself, or the travel may just be the necessary investment to arrive at a desired location.
• Visiting friends and family
• Trade
• Commuting–going to various routine activities, such as work or meetings.
• Migration—travel to begin life somewhere else; nomadic people do this
• Pilgrimages—travel for religious reasons

The word originates from the Middle English word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the French word travailler ("travail").

Travel or traveling is also a name applied to a specific violation in the game of basketball. See Traveling (basketball term).

In Fiction

• To Travel or Traveling refers to using a Gateway (in fiction) or 'fold' in the pattern created by either Saidar or Saidin to move from one place to another in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

• Travels is also the title of a non-fiction novel by Michael Crichton.

See also

• travel management

External links

• See Wikitravel at wikitravel.org for more travelling information.