[wodenokoto]

Treating travellers from afar with great curtesy has been part of most human civilizations since long before romanticism.

Why would we do that? Roughly speaking, simply because they could tell stories about far away places.

The leap from giving a meal or lending out a bed for a chance to hear about how life is abroad to actually wanting to go yourself is incredibly short.

The fact that apes or chimpanzees don't want to go travelling has nothing to do with us.