How do travel and creativity relate?

How can travel generate revenue in your life based on creative expression and ideas? It’s quite easy today compared to our human ancestors and the almost unimaginable challenges they faced to create some of the world’s most amazing statues, buildings, bridges, paintings, cities, towns and machines.

Let’s say you are a writer, architect, idea man, doctor, lawyer or anyone who needs to think and create on their toes.
Imaging walking in the footsteps of the Romans or sitting inside the home of a Herculaneuan ; how about generating ideas while gazing at the arches of the great ruins of Paestum.

These types of activates will stimulate your creative outlet to the point that you will be able to produce more, secure more, sell more, negotiate more and be more passionate about what you do in life. In turn, it will result in more revenue to your life through the inspiration and productivity you will find through freeing your mind during travel.

One way to do this is travel to far off places like Italy, France or Greece where much of the words modern machines, concepts and ideas began;  and make it a goal to sit and experience something ancient; something that took creative mind power to build, paint, move, design or sculpt.

Take time away from the guides, away from the trinkets, nick nacks, crowds and imagine the thought process and immense challenges so many centuries ago that created  what you are looking at.

Now, apply that to your own situation ; what can I do that I’m not doing that can improve my own life. How can I be inspired by the successes of the people of the past; and apply that to my current job, current design, article, project.

This type of unblocking of the creative, logistical or business thinking process is most successful when you are physically present with something that by standards of the day was considered a monumental venture.  The hands on presence of being there is the key to unlocking the creative spirit.

By realizing that people created such grand and complicated items such as Mona Lisa, David, pantheon, Greek parathion, all without the use of email, batteries, technology or even electricity.

No matter what you are working on; by modern standards it should be a walk in the park compared to your human ancestors and if done correctly; you should now be able to open up parts of your thought process that were not there before. The history and accomplishments of the past can be applied to the present.

Travel is creativity, travel is expansion of the mind, travel will produce revenue in your life if you are able to tap into the creative spirit that is within each of us.
So when you are mentally stuck, think of how Leonardo da Vinci thought through the complications of painting the Sistine Chapel and if you are a top level executive who has to mentally produce every day; then you better get your head in front of something daunting and old so you can humbly go back to your slick computer, satellite TV and global communications and figure it out!

For as far as the eye could see; Rome Italy has been the epicenter of baroque style hotels dripping in gold trim, fabric walls, and classical European style; all that has changed. In the past two or three years Rome has seen a rebirth of the boutique and hip Rome hotels catering to the jet set and their tastes for the modern, elegant and understated.

These hip gems can be found all over the historical center of the city from the Coliseum to Piazza Navona and typically have less than 20 rooms.  The old school landmark properties such as the 5 star Hotel Regina Baglioni www.baglionihotels.com  offer the finest example of old world charm and baroque European elegance are renewing their style to match the modern revolution in Rome but can’t seem to keep up with the smaller hip properties popping up all over the city.  If you are looking for the latest in luxury properties you need to look past the ordinary and you will find the extraordinary when looking for Rome hotels.

Young entrepreneurs have purchased some of the cities run down Rome hostels, one and two star Rome hotels and invested millions to turn them into the most chic and glamorous stays in the Eternal City.  

A perfect example of this is the Opera Hotel www.theoperahotel.it this former dump has been reborn with all of the style that you could ask for and with only 13 rooms you will feel like a VIP for just getting a reservation. Located on the major fairway via Nazionale, between Piazza Venezia and Piazza Della Repubblica; the hotel has the perfect location to stroll the city sights by foot. The small lobby features glass art and modern architecture. Once inside; the rooms drip with understated elegance; from the fine linens to the bathroom fixtures. More than a dozen of these hip places to rest your head have shown up in Rome in the past year; and more are being built each day.

 It seems if you are wanting to re-live a night with Cesar in gaudy-glam surroundings; you may have to look a little deeper to get past the new wave mod hotels that have become Rome’s latest luxury trend. 

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SEATTLE – March 24, 2011– Travel 4 Real  CEO, Deborah de Maio joined a small group of select women small business owners as they talked with United States Senator Patty Murray concerning increasing access to the marketplace for women and minority owned businesses.

 

The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to pass legislation to boost lending for and provide targeted tax relief to small businesses.  The legislation addresses the needs of small businesses with the Small Business Lending Fund Act and the Small Business Jobs Tax Relief Act.

 

These two bills, which are fully paid for, will now move together as one for consideration by the U.S. Senate.

 

 “One issue in the past has been that large banks are only lending to larger businesses or ‘sure bets’ and are not looking at established small, women and minority owned businesses that have been impacted and need the funding,” explained de Maio.

 

“I have pressed the Small Business Administration to further its professional contacts with women and minority owned businesses, and I will continue to push the SBA to follow through on directives from Congress to help women and minority business owners have a fair shot at receiving government contracts,” said U.S. Senator Patty Murray recently.

 

The Small Business Lending Fund Act that was passed by President Obama in September, 2010 will increase lending to small businesses by creating a small business loan fund designed to boost lending to small businesses by providing additional capital to community banks with a requirement that the money be lent out and a penalty provision on those banks that do not make the loans.  The fund will save taxpayers $1 billion over the next 10 years.

 

Travel 4 Real was awarded the Top 50 Diversity Owned Businesses in Washington in 2011 and the 2010 and 2011Top 50 Woman Owned Businesses in Washington State by DiversityBusiness.com.

 

Business owners can access information on the program by visiting: http://www.sba.gov/ and Murray’s website, http://murray.senate.gov/public/

 

About Travel 4 Real

Mother and son team, Deborah de Maio and Rem Malloy, launched Travel 4 Real in 1995 because they saw a need for a boutique tour operator that understood the hesitations and concerns of travelers going abroad. With extensive on-the-ground knowledge and understanding of culture differences, Travel 4 Real specializes in creating trips from beginning to end sending travelers on their way with the confidence and resources they need to travel solo. For more information, please call (425) 355-3711 or go to  www.travel4real.com  www.italy4real.com

 

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