TOUR 2P31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heritage Tourism, Babylon
15 Mar 2018
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Early heritage travel: early travel for pilgrimages, early leisure travel can be traced to the babylonian and egyptian empires, early greek guide books had reviews of the pyramids of giza, egypt. 7 wonders of the ancient world: pyramid of giza, hanging gardens of bablyon, temple of artemis, statue of zeus at olympia, mausoleum of maussollos, colossus of rhodes, lighthouse of alexandria. History of heritage tourism: greek and roman travel- seaside resorts, religious travel, festivals, historic buildings, Olympics, roman spas, ship travel: dark ages-(476-1450) medieval pilgrimages to canterbury cathedral. The grand tour: late 16th century the grand tour was born, (cid:862)a(cid:374) e(cid:454)te(cid:374)ded europea(cid:374) jour(cid:374)e(cid:455), usuall(cid:455) undertaken by well-heeled young aristocrats to the icons of the western civilization- such as cities as paris, venice, florence and espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) ro(cid:373)e(cid:863) Culture: patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Key components of culture: values, norms, artifacts.
