PLEASURE TRAVEL
After the ending part of the early travel the Rome Empire reached the apex of the glory. Hence it is marked that the Roman people started the concept of the travel for pleasure. Because of • Good Road Communication. • Money and time.
Roman people were Best Patron of art, learning and literature etc. We have the example of the silk route from Mediterranean sea to Pacific Ocean consist of 12,000 Km. It was connected by the older prosperous cities like Rome, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, China, like this. Some intellectuals of that period remained busy in creative activities due to their curiosity ness. They are as follows.
a) Homer’s odyssey records the prosperousness of Greece.
b) Herodotus visited Egypt, Phoenicia.
c) Greek Philosophers like Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle visited Egypt. The pleasure travel period came to an end due to the fall of the Roman Empire in (400-500 A.D.)
EMERGENCE OF SPAS AND SEASIDE RESORTS
The center of medicinal bathing and water cure is known as spas. It derived from ‘espa’ a Germany word which means fountain. In 18th Century, curative aspect of sea bathing came to be recognized and sea side resorts began. It marked the preventive factors of several maladies.
RELIGION AS A MOTIVATOR
Travel for spiritual reasons has been taking place since a long time. Visiting religious places has been one of the earliest motivators of travel. A large number of people have been making pilgrimages to sacred religious places or holy places. This practice is widespread in many parts of the world. In the Christian world, for instance, a visit to Jerusalem or the Vatican is considered to be very auspicious. In the Arab- Muslim world, the pilgrimage to Mecca or some other holy centers is considered to be a great act of faith. In India there are many pilgrimage centers and holy places of all the major religions of the world where every year a large number of pilgrims from all over the world come.
THE GRAND TOUR
The Renaissance period can be called the period of Grand tour. Italy became the cultural and Economic power of Europe. In 1552 Edward – IV of England Passed an act for holiday. The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage. Though primarily associated with the British nobility and wealthy landed gentry, similar trips were made by wealthy young men of Protestant Northern European nations on the Continent, and from the second half of the 18th century some South American, United States and other overseas youth joined in Grand Tour came to an end due to French Revolution of 1789 and attack of Napoleon Bonaparte. The primary value of the Grand Tour, it was believed, lay in the exposure both to the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to the aristocratic and fashionably polite society of the European continent The most common itinerary of the Grand Tour is where tourist usually began in Dover, England and crossed the English Channel to Ostend in the Spanish Netherlands / Belgium, or Calais, or Le Havre in France. From there the tourist, usually accompanied by a tutor (known colloquially as a "bear-leader") and if wealthy enough a league of servants, could rent or acquire a coach or opt to make the trip by boat as far as the alps, either traveling up the Seine to Paris, or up the Rhine to Basel
After the ending part of the early travel the Rome Empire reached the apex of the glory. Hence it is marked that the Roman people started the concept of the travel for pleasure. Because of • Good Road Communication. • Money and time.
Roman people were Best Patron of art, learning and literature etc. We have the example of the silk route from Mediterranean sea to Pacific Ocean consist of 12,000 Km. It was connected by the older prosperous cities like Rome, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, China, like this. Some intellectuals of that period remained busy in creative activities due to their curiosity ness. They are as follows.
a) Homer’s odyssey records the prosperousness of Greece.
b) Herodotus visited Egypt, Phoenicia.
c) Greek Philosophers like Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle visited Egypt. The pleasure travel period came to an end due to the fall of the Roman Empire in (400-500 A.D.)
EMERGENCE OF SPAS AND SEASIDE RESORTS
The center of medicinal bathing and water cure is known as spas. It derived from ‘espa’ a Germany word which means fountain. In 18th Century, curative aspect of sea bathing came to be recognized and sea side resorts began. It marked the preventive factors of several maladies.
RELIGION AS A MOTIVATOR
Travel for spiritual reasons has been taking place since a long time. Visiting religious places has been one of the earliest motivators of travel. A large number of people have been making pilgrimages to sacred religious places or holy places. This practice is widespread in many parts of the world. In the Christian world, for instance, a visit to Jerusalem or the Vatican is considered to be very auspicious. In the Arab- Muslim world, the pilgrimage to Mecca or some other holy centers is considered to be a great act of faith. In India there are many pilgrimage centers and holy places of all the major religions of the world where every year a large number of pilgrims from all over the world come.
THE GRAND TOUR
The Renaissance period can be called the period of Grand tour. Italy became the cultural and Economic power of Europe. In 1552 Edward – IV of England Passed an act for holiday. The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage. Though primarily associated with the British nobility and wealthy landed gentry, similar trips were made by wealthy young men of Protestant Northern European nations on the Continent, and from the second half of the 18th century some South American, United States and other overseas youth joined in Grand Tour came to an end due to French Revolution of 1789 and attack of Napoleon Bonaparte. The primary value of the Grand Tour, it was believed, lay in the exposure both to the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to the aristocratic and fashionably polite society of the European continent The most common itinerary of the Grand Tour is where tourist usually began in Dover, England and crossed the English Channel to Ostend in the Spanish Netherlands / Belgium, or Calais, or Le Havre in France. From there the tourist, usually accompanied by a tutor (known colloquially as a "bear-leader") and if wealthy enough a league of servants, could rent or acquire a coach or opt to make the trip by boat as far as the alps, either traveling up the Seine to Paris, or up the Rhine to Basel
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