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Gap Year travel could make you live longer

29 Jul 2010

Dr Sebastian Filep, an Australian travel and wellbeing expert, has suggested that travelling can make you happier and could even make you live longer. According to his research, travel and increased happiness and better health are linked. The research was for a book entitled 'Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life', and involved different types of travellers, including backpackers and gap year travellers. Dr Filep said: "We know from studies in the US that experiencing positive emotions reduces the risk for cardiovascular disease... Holidays may possibly lead to people living longer, as holidays make people happy."