ANTH 3120 Lecture Notes - Persian Gulf, Medical Tourism, Middle Ages
25 Mar 2014
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Tourism involves traveling and a temporary, and voluntary, visit to a place away from home. Scholarly, religious and merchant travel: silk, persian gulf, when there are large empires, they are good for infrastructure, caravansarai for merchants, you would park your camel and go inside. Famous travelers: herodotus traveled the middle east, marco polo went to china. Pilgrimage: religious pilgrimages has a lot to do with travel. Interested in food and traveling: they had a lot of holidays. The romantic tourist late 1700"s: they want to travel for sensation and mystery and the individual experience, less of an interest in churches and more in landscapes that have an emotional. Increasing travel by women: train travel cheaper cost of travel, thomas cook and early mass tourism, tension between traveling classes. Thomas cook: he was working class, walked by foot to lester, made a tourist guide. Mass tourism: thomas cook and his son offered the finest river steamers in the world.
