ANTEROOM TO INTERNATIONAL TOURISM: THE JOURNEY TO THE NEAR EAST OF A YOUNG PERUVIAN INTELLECTUAL IN 1862

Rivasplata Varillas P.E. · Revista Notas Historicas y Geograficas (2024) · DOI: 10.58210/nhyg460

Resumen

This article is an approach to tourism in the Near East of the mid-19th century, through a young Peruvian Pedro Paz Soldán y Unanue. His traveling experiences will allow us to know how was to travel the Near East in 1862, convulsed by religious, economic, political and commercial confrontations. An area still considered dangerous, but of forced transit that connected Europe to Asia. A few years after the opening of the Suez Canal, tourism in the East was very dynamic and the goods and services offered met the expectations of travelers, whether cultural or transit, in the case of merchants and bureaucrats who were in transit in Egypt or Constantinople. Wilkinson's and Murray's travel guides were popular with Europeans traveling in the Near East. A series of services were necessary: dragomanes, donkeys, horses, steamboats, rowers, security guards, tents, restaurants, accommodation, cafes.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos