Travel expert Simon Calder answers 21 pressing questions on your trips abroad
October 19, 2021
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Tourism started from practical motivations (places rich in hunting or suitable for agriculture, lands in the immediate vicinity of water or natural catastrophes) that caused people to move, but these changed with the intervention of sedentarism in people’s lives.
In ancient Egypt and other ancient cultures on all continents, there were already pilgrimages to the temples of the deities (eg, the pilgrimage to Muslims in Mecca called Hadsch or the meeting of Hindus for the ritual bath in the Ganges).
Since Roman times there were famous localities and resorts for the rich (Baiae). Wealthy Romanians owned properties in the provinces, which they visited from time to time. The Nordics traveled to Greenland and America, the Arabs across the Indian Ocean.
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