Secular Tourism in the Nineteenth Century

J osias Leslie Porter, in describing the reasons why people in the mid-nineteenth century travelled to the Holy Land, wrote:

Every traveller has, or is supposed to have, some specific object in view in making a ‘pilgrimage to Palestine’. One is in pursuit of health; another of pleasure; another of fame; another of knowledge; another of adventure; while not a few travel for the mere sake of travel — to satisfy a restless and ‘truant disposition’. ¹