History of Travel And Tourism

 2000 years Before Christ, in India and Mesopotamia

Travel trade was an important element since the beginning of civilization. The port of Lothal was an important trading center between the civilization of the Indus civilization and Sumerian.

600 BC and thereafter

The first form of leisure tourism can be traced from the Babylonian and Egyptian empires. A history museum of antiquities opened in Babylon. The Egyptians held many religious festivals that attracted devout and many of those who flocked to cities to see the famous works of art and buildings.

In India, as elsewhere, the king went to the building of an empire. Brahmins and ordinary people to travel for religious purposes. Thousands of Brahmins and ordinary people flocked to Sarnath and Sravasti to be greeted by the inscrutable smile lit Buddha.

500 BC, the Greek civilisation

Greek tourists traveled to the sites of the gods. The Greeks also observed their religious holidays which slowly became a search for pleasure, and in particular sport. Athens had become an important site for travelers visiting the main monuments as the Parthenon. Hostels have been established in major cities and ports to meet the needs of travelers. Courtesans were the main entertainment on offer.

 

This period also saw the emergence of travel writing. Herodotus was the writer of the worlds first trip. Guides have also emerged in the fourth century, covering destinations such as Athens, Sparta and Troy. Advertising on the way to direct people to sign the shelters are also known in this period.

The Roman Empire

In the absence of international border between England and Syria, and with safety at sea from the hackers because the Roman patrols, they had conditions that promote travel arrived. Roads combined with first class inns staging (precursors of modern motels) have promoted the growth of travel. The Romans went to Sicily, Greece, Rhodes, Troy and Egypt. From 300 AD journey to the Holy Land has also become very popular. The Romans introduced their guides (Itineraria) with a list of hotels with symbols to identify quality problems.

Second homes were built close to the rich Roman occupied first spring social. The most fashionable places found around the Gulf of Naples. Naples attracted to retire, and intellectuals, Cuma Bay attracted fashionable again attracted to the tourist market, becoming known for rowdiness, drinking and singing all night.

Travel and Tourism were to never attain a similar status until the modern times.

In the Middle Ages

The trip was difficult and dangerous because people traveling for business or a sense of duty and duty.Adventurers sought fame and fortune to travel through. Europeans were trying to find a sea route to India for business purposes, and thus discovered America, and examines some parts of Africa. Strolling players and minstrels living by doing so they have traveled. The missionaries, saints, etc. traveled to spread the holy word.

Leisure trip in India was introduced by the Mughals. Mughal kings built luxurious palaces and enchanting gardens in places of natural beauty and landscape (eg Jehangir traveled to Kashmir, the character of its beauty.Travel construction of the Empire and the pilgrimage is a common feature.

The Grand Tour

Since the beginning of the seventeenth century, a new form of tourism has been developed as a direct result of the Renaissance. Under the reign of Elizabeth 1, the young people were encouraged to apply for positions at the court of travels to the mainland at the end of their training. Later, it became the habit of a gentleman of Education completed the "Grand Tour", with the tutor and the last three years or more. Although ostensibly educational, men seek pleasure traveled to enjoy life and culture in Paris, Venice or Florence. By the end of the eighteenth century the practice had become institutionalized gentry. Gradually move the pleasure of traveling in educational trips. The advent of the Napoleonic wars prevented from traveling for about 30 years and has led to a decrease of the Grand Tour.

The development of the spas

Spas has grown in popularity in the seventeenth century in Great Britain, and shortly after on the European continent the awareness of the therapeutic properties of mineral water increased. When a cure rapidly acquired a status symbol. Resorts changed in character as the pleasure became the motivation for the visit. They have become an important center of social life in high society.In of the nineteenth century were gradually replaced in the seaside resort.

The sun, sand and sea resorts

The sea water has been associated with health benefits. The first visitors, so they drank and immersed in it. With the eighteenth century, a small resort village of fishermen was born in England, the visitors, who drank and soak in sea water. With a shortage of space inside the spa, a new seaside resorts grew in popularity. Commissioning services for Steamboat 19 th century the use of multiple locations in the district. Sea gradually became a place of social gathering.

 Role of the industrial revolution in promoting travel in the west

Rapid urbanization due to industrialization has led to massive immigration in cities. These people were encouraged to travel to escape their environment, places of natural beauty, often in the countryside where they had come to change the routine of work physically and mentally stressful for a leisurely pace in the country.

Highlights of travel in the nineteenth century

• advent of the railroad catalyzed business and leisure first later. Gradually, chartered special trains to take pleasure trips to destinations only.

• Package tours organized by entrepreneurs such as Thomas Cook.

• European countries engaged in a number of business trips often their colonies to buy raw materials and sell finished products.

• The invention of photography to serve as a valued and promoted foreign travel.

• The formation of the first hotel chain, developed by the railway companies that have created a hotel large railroad terminal.

• seaside resort began to develop different images than the walkers, the elite, a bet.

• Other types of destinations, ski resorts, mountain resorts, mountain climbing spots, etc.

• Steamships technological developments promoted travel to North America and Europe.

• The Suez Canal opened direct sea routes to India and the Far East.

• The cult of the guide followed the development of photography.

 Tourism in the Twentieth Century

The First World War gave a first hand experience of countries and created a sense of curiosity about international travel among the lower income sector for the first time. The large-scale migration to the United States meant many trips across the Atlantic. Private Motor began to encourage domestic travel in Europe and the West. The complex has become an annual family vacation destination in Britain and has increased its popularity in other Western countries. Proliferated hotels in these destinations.

The birth of air travel and after

Wars increased interest in international travel. This interest has taken the form of mass tourism in the aviation industry. The surplus of aircraft and the growth of private airlines have helped the expansion of air transport. The plane was comfortable, faster and always cheaper to travel abroad. With the introduction of Boeing 707 jet in 1958, had an age of air travel for the masses arrived. Early chartered aircraft market boosted the package tour and led to the creation of an organized mass tourism. Boeing 747, a 400-seat craft, bringing the cost of the trip down significantly. The seaside resorts of the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Caribbean was the origin of hot spots by mass tourism.

A corresponding growth in the hotel sector led to the creation of networks worldwide. Tourism has also begun to diversify people started going to other destinations in the 70's. Nepal and India have received a lot of tourists attracted by the Hare Krishna movement and transcendental meditation. The start of individual travel in a significant volume has occurred in the 80's. The airline has also led to continued growth in business travel, particularly with the emergence of multinational corporations.

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