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E-book Tourism the International Business
As we prepare for an annual vacation or a weekend trip we take for granted how easy present-day travel is. We do not realize the conditions necessary for present-day tourism to flourish. Consider what we require to travel. First, we must have the free time to engage in leisure pursuits. Second, we must have the money to go somewhere. Where we go is affected by the means of transportation. A combination of time, money, and availability of transportation determines where we will go. When we get there (wherever "it" is) we must have a way of paying for our purchases. While the joy of travel is enhanced by a certain amount of risk, the route and the destination
must be sufficiently safe to encourage our travel. It is only by surveying where we have come from that we can truly appreciate where we are now and plan for where we might want to be. Early peoples tended to stay in one place. Travel was essentially to seek food or to escape danger. The Bible, however, makes reference to travel for purposes of trade. In ancient times we began to see the development of routes for the purpose of facilitating trade and
the creation of specialized, if somewhat crude, vehicles specifically for traveling. The growth of cities along water ways, such as the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea, encouraged the development of water travel.
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