REVIEW QUESTION W2

(Use to review learning points)

Đặng Thị Hạnh 1D-20C
1. Review key points: Olympic Games, Silk Road, Grand Tour, Thomas
Cook,
Marco Polo.
- Olympic Games: the greatest of the games or festival of ancient Greece, held
every four years in the plain of Olympia in Elis, in honor of Zeus.
- Silk road: The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes, formally
established during the Han Dynasty of China. Created during the Roman times.
Stretching more than 12000 km from Mediterranean Sea to Pacific Ocean. Main
trade artery linking civilization of China, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt,
Greece and Rome - cities and town grew prosperously.
- Grand Tour: travel of aristocrat young men of UK to continental
Europe for educational purpose
- Thomas Cook: the father of mass tourism
- Marco Polo: Marco Polo, who traveled to China from Italy in the thirteenth
century, became the first Western explorer to compose a popular and lasting
account.
2. Of what value is learning of tourism’s long history?
- Recognize the antiquity of human travel over vast distances on both sea and
land.
- Understand how these journeys have evolved from trips that were difficult and
often dangerous, to mass travel for millions today.
- Learn about some of the great travelers in history who wrote astonishing
accounts of exotic places they had visited.
- Discover the many similarities in travel motivations, economic conditions,
political situations, attractions, and tourist facilities during the period of the
Roman Empire and today.
3. Do today’s travelers have motivations and concerns similar to those of
travelers who lived during the Classical Era?
Yes.
 - In the Classical Era, tourism for the purposes of commerce (barter of
goods), religion (pilgrimage), festivals, medical treatment or education
was developed very early.
- Another interesting aspect in the history of tourism was the development
of spas, baths and seaside resorts after their original use by the Romans,
which took place in Britain and on the Continent
4. What are similarities between pleasure travel during Roman Empire
times and now?
- Romans also journeyed to see famous temples in the Mediterranean area,
particularly the pyramids and monuments of Egypt. Greece and Asia
Minor were popular destinations, offering the Olympic Games, medicinal
baths and seaside resorts, theatrical productions, festivals, athletic
competitions, and other forms of amusement and entertainment.
- They used guidebooks, employed guides, left graffiti everywhere, and
bought souvenirs.
5. How significant were religious motivations in early travel? Do these still
exist? Examples?
- By the end of the Dark Ages, large numbers of pilgrims were traveling to such
popular shrines as Canterbury in England (immortalized in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales) and St. James of Compostela, the pilgrimage to the Cathedral
of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain.
- Religious motivations in the early travel still exist until now.
- Examples: pilgrimage to Mecca, Mount Arafat, Bodh Gaya,...
6. List 4 periods that Vietnam tourism has passed? What are the main
characteristics of each period?
- Before 1960: established 1st Vietnam Tourism Company, Foreign trade
ministry
- 1960 – 1975
+ Leisure and business tourists are rare because of war
- 1975 – 1990
+ 1978: established VNAT, Government council
+ 1990: established VN Tourism Corporation, Commercial Ministry
 - 1990 – Present.
+ 1995: VNAT, Ministry of culture, information, sport and tourism
+ 2002: Establish Vietnam tourism association
+ 2007: VNAT become a member of Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism
7. Explain three (3) important decrees in Vietnam tourism development?
- On July 9, 1960, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong on behalf of the Government
Council of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam signed Decree No. 26 CP on
the establishment of Vietnam Tourism Company under the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. love. This was the period when the country was still temporarily
divided, in a fierce war situation.
- October 26, 1992 Government Decree No. 5-CP dated October 26, 1992 on
the establishment of the Government Tourism Administration.
- 2007: The Government promulgates the Decree to merge the Vietnam
National Administration of Tourism into the Ministry of Culture, Sport and
Tourism is an industry that is focused in the development of Vietnam.

8. What do you think travel will be like 20 years from now?

I think 20 years from now tourism will prosper because more and more people
want to relax, entertain, visit the beautiful sights of many parts of the world.