Everyone likes to travel, except for the couch potatoes incurable. As soon as possible to escape from the routine and daily headaches going to stay in pleasant places is the intent of all, the best way to spend your long-awaited vacation, one of the thoughts that gives us the strength to face the harsh working days. Because traveling is nice, fun, exciting. But tourism, a practice that seems almost obvious today, was something completely unknown to most people until a few decades ago.
Excluding special forms of travel - such as religious pilgrimages and travel for business purposes from the middle ages, or the great geographical explorations at the beginning of the modern age - the first real form of tourism near as we know it is just the Grand Tour. but we can identify the pioneers of this way of traveling in a few intellectuals of the Roman Empire who visited the eastern Mediterranean, not to forget Erasmus of Rotterdam, the humanist born in the fifteenth century and known for frequent trips abroad. That of the Grand Tour, however, was an elite tourism, the prerogative of a lucky few who held the money, time and culture base to afford the luxury of visiting other countries. The charm of this historic "Grand Tour", in our eyes accustomed to tourism hit and run, it's in his character deeply adventurous young aristocrats of centuries past undertook long journeys, articulated, being away from home for months if not years; despite their high social status, had to contend with the conditions however still limited means of transport then. The ultimate adventure, however, was in total interaction of travelers with the communities from which they were housed, with their culture and their environment. These guys were able to experience life so unique that, added to the study in the field of past and present of the places visited, led them to a level of training staff to match. Imagine for a moment our dandy dressed up to come to a big city after a long and not very comfortable trip, conciarsi properly with the assistance of his valet to mix better with local, juggle sites and monuments with the help of local experts guides and copyright, making test their knowledge, in terms of language, agree with their tutor a meeting with a famous painter of the likes of Canaletto to get a portrait done an eternal reminder of the tour, enjoy the pleasure of going for purchases and enjoy everything made available by the social life of the city, and then dive again in books and educational outputs. And also imagine his excitement from life in admiring the famous works of art only seen on the drawings of the books, in times where there was still photography.
Excluding special forms of travel - such as religious pilgrimages and travel for business purposes from the middle ages, or the great geographical explorations at the beginning of the modern age - the first real form of tourism near as we know it is just the Grand Tour. but we can identify the pioneers of this way of traveling in a few intellectuals of the Roman Empire who visited the eastern Mediterranean, not to forget Erasmus of Rotterdam, the humanist born in the fifteenth century and known for frequent trips abroad. That of the Grand Tour, however, was an elite tourism, the prerogative of a lucky few who held the money, time and culture base to afford the luxury of visiting other countries. The charm of this historic "Grand Tour", in our eyes accustomed to tourism hit and run, it's in his character deeply adventurous young aristocrats of centuries past undertook long journeys, articulated, being away from home for months if not years; despite their high social status, had to contend with the conditions however still limited means of transport then. The ultimate adventure, however, was in total interaction of travelers with the communities from which they were housed, with their culture and their environment. These guys were able to experience life so unique that, added to the study in the field of past and present of the places visited, led them to a level of training staff to match. Imagine for a moment our dandy dressed up to come to a big city after a long and not very comfortable trip, conciarsi properly with the assistance of his valet to mix better with local, juggle sites and monuments with the help of local experts guides and copyright, making test their knowledge, in terms of language, agree with their tutor a meeting with a famous painter of the likes of Canaletto to get a portrait done an eternal reminder of the tour, enjoy the pleasure of going for purchases and enjoy everything made available by the social life of the city, and then dive again in books and educational outputs. And also imagine his excitement from life in admiring the famous works of art only seen on the drawings of the books, in times where there was still photography.