Another school of thought, the Onomastic School, considers the origin of
the concept not from a linguistic perspective but rather links it to
the last name of the French aristocrat Della Tour. According to this
school, after Carlos V signed a treaty with England in 1516, in
celebration of this event, the future king gave the Della Tour family
exclusive rights to conduct commercial transport and related businesses.
A third school focuses on the Anglo-Saxon world, and scrutinises
Theobald´s thesis. Surmising that the roots of the word 'tourism' lie in
the ancient Anglo-Saxon term Torn, these scholars have found evidence
that the term was coined in the 12th century by farmers to denote travel
with an intention to return. Over the centuries, the meaning of the
word has shifted. By the middle of the 18th century, English noblemen
used the term 'turn' to refer to trips undertaken for education and
cultural exploration. In reality, the purpose of the noblemen’s trips to
the different parts of the kingdom was to acquire knowledge that was
later useful for governing
