Luis Núñez Ladevéze
FIJET España
Catedrático en Periodismo
55th FIJET CONGRESS IN Marocoo
World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers
Though having famous precedents, the practice of
“tourism” has not become a collective habit until the world has become a global
society, connected by the media. Long time ago, perhaps not in such remote
times, there have been famous tourists. They used to belong to the high class,
to blood, money or cultural aristocracy. Mary Godwin wrote Frankenstein while
she was practicing tourism at the Genève Lake. John Keats left for Italy to
cure his lungs. Frederik Chopin lived in Mallorca before destroying his. Washington
Irving adopted the bewitching of the Alhambra as a topic for his tales. Gordon
Bennet Jr. made Paris the capital of his sports adventures.
