Factors contributing to the increase in international travel Travelling abroad has grown a lot in the latest years. Now, It’s as common hearing somebody talking about a weekend spent abroad as years ago it was hearing someone telling about a rail trip to the north of the country. We can ask ourselves what have made that change. It is out of doubt that methods of transport are now much more comfortable and reliable than a couple of decades ago. I remember taking a train for a one hundred and fifty Kilometers trip, and spent almost eight hours to arrive. The bench where made of wood, like the ones that can be found in a park. The train stopped in each little town, and waited for people getting in and out, and waiting until the way is not occupied by another train. This train has been replaced for a High Velocity Train which covers the distance quietly in less than half an hour. No stops, no people sitting nor leaving their seats annoying with their luggages; no wooden bench but regulable arm chairs in front of a tv monitor showing a movie instead. Companies having offices abroad is also much more common now than before, and there are a lot of people working in different countries, which make the idea of leaving the country much more usual. I think both reasons, companies offices scattered worldwide and methods of transport improvement, are playing a complementary role in travelling growing. If the methods of transport were as they were twenty years ago, companies couldn’t be able to maintain employees far away, but if not for the companies sending people abroad, the improvement in transporting wouldn’t be as it is.