Editing Tourism (section)

===Medieval===
[[File:"A Tour Guide to the Famous Places of the Capital" from Akizato Rito's Miyako meisho zue (1787).jpg|thumb|A Japanese tourist consulting a tour guide and a guide book from Akizato Ritō's ''Miyako meisho zue'' (1787)]]By the [[post-classical]] era, many religions, including [[Christian pilgrimage|Christianity]], [[Buddhist pilgrimage|Buddhism]], and [[Umrah|Islam]] had developed traditions of [[pilgrimage]]. ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' ({{Circa|1390s}}), which uses a pilgrimage as a [[framing device]], remains a classic of [[English literature]], and ''[[Journey to the West]]'' ({{Circa|1592}}), which holds a seminal place in [[Chinese literature]], has a Buddhist pilgrimage at the center of its narrative.

In [[medieval Italy]], [[Petrarch]] wrote an allegorical account of his 1336 [[ascent of Mont Ventoux]] that praised the act of travelling and criticized {{Lang|la|frigida incuriositas}} (a 'cold lack of curiosity'); this account is regarded as one of the first known instances of travel being undertaken for its own sake.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cassirer |first=Ernst |date=January 1943 |title=Some Remarks on the Question of the Originality of the Renaissance |jstor=2707236 |journal=Journal of the History of Ideas |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=49–74 |doi=10.2307/2707236|issn=0022-5037 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch-ventoux.asp |title=Petrarch: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux |last1=Halsall |first1=Paul |date=August 1998 |website=fordham.edu |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=5 March 2014}}</ref> The [[Duke of Burgundy|Burgundian]] poet {{Interlanguage link|Michault Taillevent|fr}} later composed his own horrified recollections of a 1430 trip through the [[Jura Mountains]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7yqsIYSNmLMC&pg=PA32 | title=Un poète bourguignon du XVe siècle, Michault Taillevent: édition et étude | publisher=Librairie Droz |author1=Deschaux, Robert |author2=Taillevent, Michault | year=1975 | pages=31–32| isbn=978-2-600-02831-8 }}</ref>

In China, 'travel record literature' ({{lang-zh|t=遊記文學|hp=yóujì wénxué|labels=no}}) became popular during the [[Song Dynasty]] (960–1279).<ref name="hargett 67">Hargett 1985, p. 67.</ref> Travel writers such as [[Fan Chengda]] (1126–1193) and [[Xu Xiake]] (1587–1641) incorporated a wealth of [[geographical]] and [[topographical]] information into their writing, while the 'daytrip essay' ''[[Su Shi#Travel record literature|Record of Stone Bell Mountain]]'' by the noted poet and statesman [[Su Shi]] (1037–1101) presented a philosophical and moral argument as its central purpose.
<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Hargett|first1= James M. |year=1985 |title= Some Preliminary Remarks on the Travel Records of the Song Dynasty (960-1279)|journal= Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews|volume= 7|issue= 1/2|pages=67–93 |jstor=495194 |doi= 10.2307/495194}}</ref>