2000 years Before Christ, in India and Mesopotamia
Travel for trade was an leading highlight since the starting of civilisation. The port at Lothal was an leading centre of trade between the Indus valley civilisation and the Sumerian civilisation.
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600 Bc and thereafter
The earliest form of relaxation tourism can be traced as far back as the Babylonian and Egyptian empires. A museum of historic antiquities was open to the collective in Babylon. The Egyptians held many religious festivals that attracted the devout and many citizen who thronged to cities to see noted works of arts and buildings.
In India, as elsewhere, kings travelled for empire building. The Brahmins and the base citizen travelled for religious purposes. Thousands of Brahmins and the base folk thronged Sarnath and Sravasti to be greeted by the inscrutable smile of the Enlightened One- the Buddha.
500 Bc, the Greek civilisation
The Greek tourists travelled to sites of medical gods. The Greeks also enjoyed their religious festivals that increasingly became a chase of pleasure, and in particular, sport. Athens had come to be an leading site for travellers visiting the major sights such as the Parthenon. Inns were established in large towns and seaports to furnish for travellers' needs. Courtesans were the principal entertainment offered.
This era also saw the birth of tour writing. Herodotus was the worlds' first tour writer. Guidebooks also made their appearance in the fourth century face destinations such as Athens, Sparta and Troy. Advertisements in the way of signs directing citizen to inns are also known in this period.
The Roman Empire
With no foreign borders between England and Syria, and with safe seas from piracy due to Roman patrols, the conditions favouring tour had arrived. First class roads coupled with staging inns (precursors of contemporary motels) promoted the growth of travel. Romans travelled to Sicily, Greece, Rhodes, Troy and Egypt. From 300 Ad tour to the Holy Land also became very popular. The Romans introduced their guidebooks (itineraria), listing hotels with symbols to identify quality.
Second homes were built by the rich near Rome, occupied primarily during springtime collective season. The most fashionable resorts were found around Bay of Naples. Naples attracted the retired and the intellectuals, Cumae attracted the fashionable while Baiae attracted the down shop tourist, becoming noted for its rowdiness, drunkenness and all- night singing.
Travel and Tourism were to never attain a similar status until the contemporary times.
In the Middle Ages
Travel became difficult and hazardous as citizen travelled for enterprise or for a sense of enforcement and duty.
Adventurers sought fame and fortune through travel. The Europeans tried to explore a sea route to India for trade purposes and in this fashion discovered America and explored parts of Africa. Strolling players and minstrels made their living by performing as they travelled. Missionaries, saints, etc. Travelled to spread the sacred word.
Leisure tour in India was introduced by the Mughals. The Mughal kings built luxurious palaces and challenging gardens at places of natural and scenic beauty (for example Jehangir travelled to Kashmir drawn by its beauty.
Travel for empire construction and pilgrimage was a regular feature.
The Grand Tour
From the early seventeenth century, a new form of tourism was advanced as a direct outcome of the Renaissance. Under the reign of Elizabeth 1, young men seeking positions at court were encouraged to tour to continent to conclude their education. Later, it became former for instruction of gentleman to be completed by a 'Grand Tour' accompanied by a tutor and persisting for three or more years. While ostensibly educational, the satisfaction seeking men travelled to enjoy life and culture of Paris, Venice or Florence. By the end of eighteenth century, the convention had come to be institutionalised in the gentry. Gradually satisfaction tour displaced educational travel. The advent of Napoleonic wars inhibited tour for around 30 years and led to the decline of the convention of the Grand Tour.
The improvement of the spas
The spas grew in popularity in the seventeenth century in Britain and a exiguous later in the European Continent as awareness about the therapeutic qualities of mineral water increased. Taking the cure in the spa rapidly acquired the nature of a status symbol. The resorts changed in character as satisfaction became the motivation of visits. They became an leading centre of collective life for the high society.
In the nineteenth century they were moderately supplanted by the seaside resort.
The sun, sand and sea resorts
The sea water became related with health benefits. The earliest visitors therefore drank it and did not bathe in it. By the early eighteenth century, small fishing resorts sprung up in England for visitors who drank and immersed themselves in sea water. With the overcrowding of inland spas, the new sea side resorts grew in popularity. The introduction of steamboat services in 19th century introduced more resorts in the circuit. The seaside resort moderately became a collective meeting point
Role of the market revolution in promoting tour in the west
The rapid urbanisation due to industrialisation led to mass immigration in cities. These citizen were lured into tour to fly their environment to places of natural beauty, often to the countryside they had come from change of routine from a physically and psychologically stressful jobs to a unhurried pace in countryside.
Highlights of tour in the nineteenth century
· advent of railway initially catalysed enterprise tour and later relaxation travel. moderately special trains were chartered to only take relaxation tour to their destinations.
· container tours organised by entrepreneurs such as Thomas Cook.
· The European countries indulged in a lot of enterprise tour often to their colonies to buy raw material and sell finished goods.
· The invention of photography acted as a status-enhancing tool and promoted overseas travel.
· The formation of first hotel chains; pioneered by the railway associates who established great railway terminus hotels.
· Seaside resorts began to originate distinct images as for day-trippers, elite, for gambling.
· Other types of destinations-ski resorts, hill stations, mountaineering spots etc.
· The technological improvement in steamships promoted tour between North America and Europe.
· The Suez Canal opened direct sea routes to India and the Far East.
· The cult of the guidebook followed the improvement of photography.
Tourism in the Twentieth Century
The First World War gave first hand contact of countries and aroused a sense of curiosity about international tour among less well off sector for the first time. The large scale of migration to the Us meant a lot of tour across the Atlantic. Incommunicable motoring began to encourage domestic tour in Europe and the west. The sea side resort became yearly house holiday destination in Britain and increased in popularity in other countries of the west. Hotels proliferated in these destinations.
The birth of air tour and after
The wars increased interest in international travel. This interest was given the shape of mass tourism by the aviation industry. The surplus of aircraft and growth of Incommunicable airlines aided the expansion of air travel. The aircraft had come to be comfortable, faster and steadily economy for overseas travel. With the introduction of Boeing 707 jet in 1958, the age of air tour for the masses had arrived. The starting of chartered flights boosted the container tour shop and led to the establishment of organised mass tourism. The Boeing 747, a 400 seat craft, brought the cost of tour down sharply. The seaside resorts in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Caribbean were the preliminary hot spots of mass tourism.
A corresponding growth in hotel commerce led to the establishment of world-wide chains. Tourism also began to diversify as citizen began to flock alternative destinations in the 70s. Nepal and India received a throng of tourists lured by Hare Krishna movement and transcendental meditation. The starting of private tour in a principal volume only occurred in the 80s. Air tour also led to a continuous growth in enterprise tour especially with the emergence of the Mncs.
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