{"id":44,"date":"2016-04-15T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/greetingsfromrichmond\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2016-05-26T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:23:56","slug":"tourism-richmond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/greetingsfromrichmond\/tourism-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism & Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

People have traveled for millennia. But tourism, or travel for recreation, is a relatively new idea. Early nineteenth-century observers coined the word \u201csightseeing\u201d to capture the growing popularity of traveling to destinations and touring recognized \u201csights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Modern tourism emerged in Richmond after the Civil War. Guidebooks by city boosters instructed visitors about what to see\u2013and what was worth seeing. Postcards offered a way to share the experience with family and friends back home.<\/p>\n

Today, these artifacts of tourism\u2013postcards, guidebooks, and promotional videos\u2013demonstrate how Richmond has showcased itself to the world. They remind us of the power of who gets to tell Richmond\u2019s history. Some stories and sights are highly visible. Others have been hidden or ignored.<\/p>\n

Why visit Richmond? Amidst centuries of change, Richmond has cultivated its image as a city of history<\/a>, a city of leisure<\/a>, and a city of commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People have traveled for millennia. But tourism, or travel for recreation, is a relatively new idea. Early nineteenth-century observers coined the word \u201csightseeing\u201d to capture the growing popularity of traveling to destinations and touring recognized \u201csights.\u201d Modern tourism emerged in Richmond after the Civil War. Guidebooks by city boosters instructed visitors about what to see\u2013and what was worth seeing. Postcards offered a way to share … Continue reading Tourism & Richmond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2927,"featured_media":169,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[36879],"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-featured"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7um32-I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/greetingsfromrichmond\/tourism-richmond\/city-of-commerce\/","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":0},"title":"City of Commerce","author":"Dominique Brown","date":"April 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Though a city known for selling its historic past, Richmond has also been home to industry giants such as Reynolds Metals, Phillip Morris, and Capital One. 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