A New Vocabulary for Travel: Michael Halle on the Transformational Travel Design Course

A TTC Testimonial from Michael P Hallé, Ally member and TTC Recognized Transformer

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“It is difficult to accurately describe the general feeling of the planet in a post-pandemic world.

Clearly, the pandemic has had a significant impact on people's lives and has disrupted many aspects of society, including foundational elements such as the healthcare systems, the economy, the service sector, and daily routines. Some feel relieved others may feel anxious or uncertain about the future. It is important to remember that as unique individuals we may have different experiences and feelings about the pandemic and its aftermath.

I believe that somehow, we have all been touched, if not changed, by the events of the past three years. I am one such person.

I have spent a lifetime in the tourism and travel sector, with one objective which is to share the process of discovery through experiences found exclusively through travel within host communities in destinations driven by Nature, Culture and an empathetic world view.

Somehow, we have all been changed by the events of the past three years and when things began to look better, I began searching for a way to re-enter my own life through travel as a method to do what I have always done after a crisis, transform myself as I have always done when faced with trauma and events which caused radical changes on society, or me personally.

One of my greatest personal discoveries was becoming an ALLY MEMBER of the Transformational Travel Council, and then deciding to register and participate in a uniquely amazing program called the Transformational Travel Design Program.

Transformational Travel, as taught by a collective of amazingly dedicated, soulful travel professionals, taught me step by step how to create, facilitate, and share, the experiences that I know and make them available to people, almost exclusively through the immersive process of travel.

As a businessperson, with a lot of years of experience in tourism development and global brand marketing, I learned a new vocabulary to market, communicate and convert people who maybe feeling anxious or uncertain about travel, and provide proven tools to help guide them through their personal doubts and hesitation about venturing back out in the world of travel.

And then, as if that were not enough to satisfy even this often-cynical mind, I learned how to present and share the methods associated with transformation through travel, which to me means taking active responsibility for, and conscious awareness of the sacredness of one’s journey to a better place; physically, psychologically and soulfully.

The TTC gave me the tools to consciously reconnect with myself and understand that our real work in the recovery of our travel economy, is to help people step away from the carnage of the fearful mind as a result of the pandemic and discover or rediscover their true nature.

For this, I will be eternally grateful and am telling everyone I know, and some I don’t, how the Transformational Travel Council helped me to shift my mindset, just long enough to discover the beauty of our World once more!”

-Michael P Hallé