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Title: Tour itinerary and old travelogue
Authors: Ahmed, M.
Keywords: Importance of travelogue
Cultural background
Historical values and tourist attractions
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017
Citation: Ahmed,M.(2017). Tour itinerary and old travelogue. The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, Centre for Heritage Studies,University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka. p.26.
Abstract: A tourist road that includes visits to a variety of historical sites, places of cultural interest, or innate attractions an itinerary undertaken for literary, cultural, educational, health, or sports purposes. Tour itinerary may be worked out by tourist agencies and organizations or by the tourists themselves. Travel writing is quite a popular genre. Generally People search for the help of the travelogues to get known about a distinct place before deciding to visit it. Travel writing usually provides detailed information about the scenery verdant and attractions of a place, in this way people get tempted to go to that site in their vacations. Secondly the real travelogue can be considered as a source to know the historical importance, cultural information, environmental acquaintance, develop and undeveloped state of affairs of a particular place region and a country. Thus, the writers who are interested and want to be involved in travel writing skill have to follow some particular rules and regulation and appropriate classification to make their travelogues more captivating and appealing to the readers. There are some very interesting old travelogue written by the eminent traveler like Ibn- Battuta, Nasir Khusrau and etc. There is not an iota of doubt that the people of Asian region salute to Ibn Battuta's work who was prominent medieval traveler. Most of the countries are following in the footsteps of this famous 14th century Muslim traveler, exploring the places he went and the people he encountered. it is apparent that in 14th century A.D there were no aeroplanes, buses, cars, helicopter, motors, railways, but the people of high scholarship and doctrine had ignored all the hardship of the route whether it is the route of high mountains, forests, or the route of terrifying sea and they travelled persistently in search of lore and knowledge To help we all to discover more about this world. In this article I will discuss about the pilgrims route cultural social and historical significance of travelogue.
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/18737
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