Editing Tourism (section)

===Ancient===
{{see also|Travel literature}}Travel outside a person's local area for leisure was largely confined to wealthy classes, who at times travelled to distant parts of the world, to see great buildings and works of art, [[multilingualism|learn new languages]], experience new cultures, enjoy pristine nature and to taste different [[cuisine]]s. As early as [[Shulgi]], however, kings praised themselves for protecting roads and building way stations for travellers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFWjoeVCLk0C|title=Introduction To Tourism|last=Jayapalan|first=N.|year=2001|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-977-9|language=en}}</ref> Travelling for pleasure can be seen in [[Egypt]] as early on as 1500 BC.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Casson|first1=Lionel|title=Travel in the Ancient World|date=1994|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|page=32}}</ref> [[Tourism in ancient Rome|Ancient Roman tourists]] during the [[Roman Republic|Republic]] would visit [[spa]]s and coastal resorts such as [[Baiae]]. They were popular among the rich. The Roman upper class used to spend their free time on land or at sea and travelled to their {{Lang|la|villa urbana}} or {{Lang|la|villa maritima}}. Numerous villas were located in [[Campania]], around [[Rome]] and in the northern part of the Adriatic as in [[Barcola]] near Trieste. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] wrote his ''[[Description of Greece]]'' in the second century AD. In [[ancient China]], nobles sometimes made a point of visiting [[Mount Tai]] and, on occasion, all [[five Sacred Mountains]].