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Vraag
Answer: Antwoord
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Answer: Toen
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How can tourism occur?
Answer: People have to have the ability (both in terms of time and money), the mobility, and the motivation to travel.
2.
How was travel for Ancient Egyptians?
Answer: -For both business and pleasure - Travel was necessary between the central government and the territories - To accommodate travelers on official business, hospitality centers were built along major routes and in the cities - Public festivals - Travel was also for curiosity – people visited the great tombs and temples of the pharaohs
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How was travel in Greek Times?
Answer: - Water was the most important means of moving commercial goods - Religious events - Sporting events - To visit cities, especially Athens
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By what developments was travel advanced?
Answer: 1. A system of currency exchange was developed 2. The Greek language spread throughout the Mediterranean area, making it easier to communicate as one traveled
5.
Name 5 reasons for why travel flourished in Roman times.
Answer: The control of the large empire stimulated trade and led to the growth of a large middle class with the money to travel Roman coins were all the traveler had to carry to finance the trip The means of transportation – roads and waterways – were excellent Communication was relatively easy, as Greek and Latin were the principal languages The legal system provided protection from foreign courts, thereby ensuring the safety of the traveler
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The Grand Tour brought about by the need to develop a class of professional statesmen and ambassadors. Young men traveled with ambassadors over Europe to complete their education.
Answer: - France – Italy – Germany – Switzerland – the Low Countries
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Name two major factors which affected the development of tourism (late eighteenth and early nineteenth century)? Increased industrialization accounted for both of them.
Answer: The industrial revolution accelerated the movement from rural to urban areas; this produced a large number of people in a relatively small area. The desire or motivation to escape, even for a brief period, was there. The development of steam engines in the form of trains and steamships, this allowed the means of mobility to escape
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Which three factors influenced the development of spa\'s?
Answer: - The approval of the medical profession - Court patronage - Local entrepreneurship to take advantage of the first two
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