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In the past people traveled, if they had to, for particular and practical reasons, for example, to trade in other countries, to find better land to cultivate , to get away from an unpleasant political regime or situation, or to go on a pilgrimage. But at what point did travel become tourism? Certainly, pilgrimages had a sort of holiday air about them, as any reader of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales will know. And people on pilgrimages to other countries did touristy things like bringing back souvenirs . "Travel," however, as Skeat's etymological dictionary points out, was the same word as "travail," meaning effort or labor, because of "the toil of traveling in olden times." Over time, the pilgrimage became the Grand Tour which was fashionable in the l61h century and after. This was a trip around Europe made by the sons of the wealthy with the supposed purpose of educating them in the great cultures of tl1e past, the architecture and works of art, especially in Italy. So it could be said that the Grand Tour had something of the pilgrimage about it. It is therefore possible, at a pinch, to date the origins of tourism to the medieval pilgrimage. But the word itself was only officially used for the first time in 193 7, and referred to people traveling abroad for periods of over twenty-four hours.
