Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on the travel and tourism sector. Many centuries later, in the fourth century, even had advertisements posted on city walls which informed people traveling to religious festivals about the available inns in the towns of Sparta, Athens, and Troy. During the era of the Roman Empire, Roman soldier patrols allowed Roman citizens to be able to travel in relative safety within the empire’s jurisdiction. The Roman Empire also built high-quality roads to places like Rhodes and Sicily- thus easing the traveling expeditions of its citizens.

From 300 AD, many people from all over the world would travel to the Holy Land on spiritual pilgrimages. The Romans were the first civilization to use (itineraria) guidebooks which had lists of inns and different marks indicating varying quality. The areas near the city, Rome, even had homes that were constructed to house the multitudes of visitors who came to the city in springtime to enjoy the entertainments that were common at this time. The tourist resorts around ‘Naples’ were mainly favored by Roman intellectuals as well as retired wealthy citizens. The region of ‘Baiae’ was more frequented by the lower elements of Roman society and was notorious for all- night singing. With the collapse of the Roman Empire, travel became much more dangerous for people as there were no patrols to keep the roads safe.

Between the 16th to 18th centuries in Europe, the citizens of many nations were more mobile than was the case during the Middle Ages (Veal 2006). The Northern European landed gentry often sent their sons to places like Greece and Italy to learn more about different cultures as part of the “Grand Tour”. For the most part, people still walked to different places. it is only the wealthy who used carriages to travel. When traveling long distances, citizens from different nations would also use horses and ships. The ships did not have motors but used the wind’s power. Due to the fact that the speed of travel was limited most governments authorized the building of cities near the major waterways so as to make trade easier.