Travel industry was an important element since the dawn of civilization. The Port of Lothal was an important center of trade between the civilization of the Indus and Sumerian civilization.
600 BC and later
The first form of leisure tourism from the Babylonian and Egyptian empires back. A historical museum of antiquities was opened to the public in Babylon. The Egyptians held many religious festivals, religious and many of those who flocked to the cities, to famous art works and buildings look dressed.
In India, as elsewhere, the Kings traveled to the construction of the Empire. The Brahmins and ordinary people were traveling for religious purposes. Thousands of Brahmins and ordinary people crowded Sarnath and Sravasti greeted by the mysterious smile of the enlightened Buddha.
500 BC, the Greek culture
The Greek tourists traveled to the sites of the gods. The Greeks also appreciate their religious holidays, which gradually became a pursuit of pleasure and especially sports. Athens had become an important destination for travelers, major tourist attractions like the Parthenon. Hostels have been established in major cities and seaports, in order to meet the needs of travelers. Courtesans were the main entertainment offered.
This period was also the birth of travel writing. Herodotus was the world's first travel writer. Guides have also emerged in the fourth century, for destinations such as Athens, Sparta and Troy. To direct ads in the way people sign hostels are also known at this time.
The Roman Empire
In the absence of borders between England and foreigners in Syria, and with a sea of piracy patrol came novel conditions for travel. First-class production lines with hostels (forerunner of the modern motels) have promoted the growth of the coupled traveling. Romans went to Sicily, Greece, Rhodes, Troy and Egypt. To travel from 300 AD to the Holy Land has become very popular. The Romans brought their guides (Itineraria) listing hotels with symbols to identify the quality.
The houses were built by the wealthy, socially in the vicinity of Rome, especially during the busy spring season. The most popular stations around the Bay of Naples found. Naples has attracted retirees and intellectuals drew Cuma fashionable Baia moved during the tourist market down, always there for his rowdiness, drunkenness and all night singing known.
Travel and tourism have never been a status similar to the modern era to reach.
In the Middle Ages
Travel has become difficult and dangerous for people on business or a sense of obligation and duty.
Adventurer, fame and fortune by traveling. The Europeans are trying to discover a sea route to India for business purposes and so that America discovered and explored parts of Africa. A walk players and singers earned their livelihood by clicking on their journey. Missionaries, saints, traveled to the holy word, etc. to spread.
Holidays 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 attracted by its beauty.
Travel for the creation of an empire and the pilgrimage has been a regular part.
The Grand Tour
Since the beginning of the seventeenth century, a new form of tourism as a direct result of the Renaissance has developed. During the reign of Elizabeth 1, young men who work at the Tribunal was asked to go to Africa to complete her studies. Later it was supplemented for the education of a gentleman of a "Grand Tour" by a guardian and a period of three years or more in common accompaniment. Although ostensibly educational, looking like the men traveled to enjoy the life and culture of Paris, Venice or Florence. In the late eighteenth century, the custom has been institutionalized in the peerage. Gradually shifted holiday travel study trips. The advent of the Napoleonic wars inhibited travel almost 30 years and led to the demise of the custom of the Grand Tour.
The development of health resorts
Spas in popularity in the seventeenth century grew up in England and later in the European continent the awareness of the therapeutic properties of mineral water. Take the medicine at the spa quickly acquired the character of a status symbol. The station changed its character when the motivation was the joy of the visitors. They have become an important center of social life in high society.
In the nineteenth century they were gradually replaced by the resort.
Stations sun, sand and sea
The sea water has been associated with health benefits. The first visitors as a result, he drank, and not swim in it. In the early eighteenth century, published a small fishing village stations in England for the visitors, and drank eagerly read the sea water with the overpopulation of domestic baths, new stations by the sea has gained popularity. The introduction of the steamboat service in the 19th Century led a number of stations in the circuit. The resort has gradually become a social meeting place
The role of the industrial revolution in the promotion of travel to the West
The rapid urbanization due to industrialization has led to massive migration to the cities. These people have been attracted to travel to their environments to places of natural beauty, which often come in the countryside, where they had to flee to change the routine of a physically and psychologically stressful work at a leisurely pace in the campaign.
Highlights of the trip in the nineteenth century
เธ ข เธ - advent of the railway business first and catalyzes leisure later. Gradually, the special trains will be chartered to take holidaymakers to their destination only.
Travel packages เธ ข เธ - organized by entrepreneurs such as Thomas Cook.
เธ ข เธ - European countries involved in many business travelers often buy their colonies for raw materials and finished products.
เธ ข เธ - The invention of photography was used as a tool to reward and encourage foreign travel.
เธ ข เธ - The formation of the first hotel chain of the railway companies that have developed a large railway terminus hotel created.
เธ ข เธ - Coast began different images for day trippers, elite, playing games to develop.
เธ ข เธ - Other types of destinations and ski resorts, mountain resorts, mountaineering, stains, etc.
เธ ข เธ - the technological developments in steamship travel between North America and Europe encouraged.
เธ ข เธ - The Suez Canal opened direct sea route to India and the Far East.
เธ ข เธ - The cult of leadership followed by the development of photography.
Tourism in the Twentieth Century
The First World War was a first-hand experience of countries and created a sense of curiosity about international travel to the less affluent sector for the first time. The large-scale migration to the United States meant many trips across the Atlantic. Private motor started to domestic travel in Europe and to promote the West. The resort has become an annual family holiday destination in the UK and has grown in popularity in other Western countries. Hotels in these destinations increased.
The birth of aviation and to
Wars increased interest in international travel. This interest has been given the form of mass tourism in the aviation industry. The surplus of aircraft and the growth of private airlines contributed to the expansion of air transport. The plane was more comfortable, faster and cheaper to travel abroad regularly. With the introduction of the Boeing 707 jets in 1958, came at the age of air travel for the masses. The early documents stimulated the market for package holidays and led to the creation of an organized mass tourism. The Boeing 747, a 400-seat craft, bringing the cost of travel to clear. The resorts on the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Caribbean were the first hot spots of mass tourism.
A corresponding growth in the hospitality industry, to create the world out chains. Tourism has also begun to diversify, as people began to other destinations in the 70's flow. Nepal and India have received a lot of tourists through the Hare Krishna movement and transcendental meditation dressed. The beginning of each trip in a significant volume has occurred in the 80 years. The airline has also led to further growth in business travel, especially with the emergence of multinational corporations.
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