Six forms of ancient western travel

Looking at the whole process of human tourism development, it can be roughly divided into three stages: ancient tourism (1840 years ago) and modern tourism (184 1- 1945,184/Thomas Cook, England/0/year.

Brief introduction of ancient western tourism

(A) the rise of commercial travel in the late primitive society

As an activity of human spatial displacement, travel has existed since ancient times.

People often go out to exchange products in order to understand the production and demand of products in other regions. Therefore, the earliest road of human travel was opened by businessmen, and their travel was for commercial and trade purposes.

(2) The increasingly rich tourism activities in the slave society.

The Persian Empire, which rose in the middle of 6th century BC, promoted the development of business travel.

Greece is the cradle of western civilization.

Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian, wrote History, which was called "the father of tourism literature" by later generations. It can be seen from Herodotus' works that travel at that time was always closely related to religious belief.

Ancient Greece made outstanding contributions to the development of tourism. World religious travel first appeared in Egypt and reached its peak in ancient Greece.

The Roman era was the heyday of ancient human travel in the world.

(3) The exploration and travel of human beings in feudal society.

Magellan was the first navigator in the world to sail around the world. It proves the correctness of the "Earth Circle Theory" and gives people a brand-new concept of the universe.

The constant discovery of new routes has aroused the enthusiasm of human beings to explore knowledge.

/kloc-After the middle of the 6th century, hot spring tourism began in Europe.