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9.
What countries use the euro for currency?
15.
Are medical and health travel motivations still
important?
10.
Are museums, cathedrals, and art galleries really
important to most visitors? Provide some outstanding
examples.
11.
How signi
cant were religious motivations in early
travel? Do these still exist? If so, list examples.
16.
Describe ancient tourist attractions. How signi
cant
are they now?
17.
Why has air travel become the primary mode for
middle- and long-distance trips?
12.
Early religious houses such as churches and monas-
teries often accommodated travelers. Give reasons for
this.
18.
Who was the
first travel agent, and what services did
he provide? The
first rail passenger agent? Tour
operator? Steamship agent?
13.
What, if any, were the impacts of Marco Polo
s writings
on the growth of travel by Europeans during the
Renaissance (fourteenth through sixteenth centuries)?
'
19.
How have computerized reservations systems (CRSs)
aided travel agencies and the traveler?
20.
What do you think travel will be like 20 years from
now?
14.
Speci
cally, why did travel by rail supersede that by
stagecoach?
E
CASE PROBLEM
E
1.
Mrs. Harris is a successful museum curator. She is
approached by the Museum Director to develop a
special nine month exhibit on
advice would you give her on what to include in the
exhibit?
What time periods would be best to focus on? What
advice do you have on modes of transportation, people, and
technological innovations? What features would ensure a
large audience?
''
that would occupy an entire
floor of the museum. She
is very excited about the project, and has hired you as
a travel consultant to help with the exhibit. What
''
the history of travel
ENDNOTES
1.
Lionel Casson, Travel in the Ancient World (London: Allen and Unwin, 1974), p. 253. A note on
style:
B
.
C
.
E
. (Before the Common Era) and
C
.
E
. (Common Era), used by some authors and often
used in scholarly literature, are the alternative designations corresponding to
B
.
C
. and
A
.
D
.
2.
Eric Friedheim, Travel Agents: From Caravans and Clippers to the Concorde (New York: Travel
Agent Magazine Books, 1992), pp. 27
-
28.
3.
Ibid., p. 5.
4.
Casson, Travel in the Ancient World, p. 32.
5.
Ibid., p. 32.
6.
Ibid., p. 34.
7.
Ibid., p. 31.
8.
Ibid., p. 35.
9.
Ibid., p. 25.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Ibid., p. 27.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid., p. 299.
14.
Peter Neville-Hadley, China: The Silk Routes (Old Saybrook, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1997).
15.
J. D. Brown, Frommer
'
s China: The 50 Most Memorable Trips (New York: Simon & Schuster,
1998), p. 371.
16.
Neville-Hadley, China, p. 61.
17.
Stephen G. Haw, A Traveller
'
s History of China, 2d ed. (New York: N.W. Publishing Group, 1998),
pp. 84
-
85.
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