What’s that smell? It might just be the next big thing in travel.
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What’s that smell? It might just be the next big thing in travel.
When we smell, we remember. In fact, research has shown that the memories associated with smell are the most powerful, vivid, and emotional of all our recollections.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
Experts tell us that smell is the most faithful of all the senses in terms of memory. The smells of one’s childhood still remain within. It is incredible how a simple scent on a street or in a room can bring you back years to an experience you had long forgotten.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
There comes a time when visiting places has less to do with touring space and everything to do with touring selves.
Caroline Cala Donofrio • The Places That Save Us
When the traveler wants a big experience, he goes to a big city to see big things. But when he wants an “ authentic” experience, he must eschew the most well-trodden places, possibly the cities themselves, to find it. He must seek out places that have not yet been touched by “tourism”, he must find the people and places that still have remoteness —... See more
Simon Sarris • Small Spaces
What if beauty was just our name for experiences that push us out of our mental ruts and burst open our reducing valves of consciousness?