Timeline: History of Travel and Tourism

1649

Introduction

1650

Before 1670

Before 1670 it was mostly the Greeks and the Romans who travelled between countries. They even had their family members go and visit them so this was the first form on VFR - visiting friends and relatives.
There was time off occasionally to celebrate holy-days, which is where the word holiday came from.

1670

The Grand Tour

in 1670 young men wanted to get closer to Queen Elizabeth l, they had to travel to study art, architecture and culture.
The key places they'd travel to is Paris, Rome, Venice, Florence, Milan and sometimes Athens.
in this year The Grand Tour would last a year.

1700

The growth of the spa Town

In the 17th to the 18th century spa town became especially popular, later in history Bath, Buxton was the two main places for spa towns.
They realised the health benefits form the natural mineral waters that came from the ground.
They became centres of high fashion with an exclusive weathly image.

1800

The Growth of Beach Resorts

it was realized that the health benefits from the spa waters could also be found in the sea, places like Brighton, Blackpool and Scarborough become popular. travelling there was expensive but then in the early part of 1800's steamboat service from London were introduced and that's what the piers were built for.

1840

How the Railways helped tourism to grow

building the railways started in 1830, between big cities and the coast by the 1840's there was 51 million passengers a year, entrepreneurs began organizing trips to the seaside also at this time people started to take time of work which helped the bloom UK in tourism

1930

the rise and fall of holiday camps

1930 we saw the first holiday camp. aimed at the growing low-income market. Billy Butlins opened him first site in skewness in 1936. he was then copied by harry warner and Fred pontin from 1970 the popularity of the holiday camp started o decline. this was due to people looking for sun, sand and sangria and started taking cheap packaged holidays. now European style holiday camps have become popular like center parc, who opened their first [ark in Sherwood forest in 1987.

1950

The changes in leisure time and working pattern

Working patterns were generally more traditional with fewer women in paid work and shorter paid working hours for men than today, leading to limited leisure time for many.

1950

development of package holidays

In 1758, cox and kings. They organised travel for the military.
In 1841 Thomas cook stared with a day trip on the train from Leicester to Loughborough for a shilling .
1888 poly tours, cheap holiday abroad for students.
1893 sit Henry lunn started a rivel holiday company. They merged in the 1970 and become Thomson who are now part of Tui.

1983

how the internet has changed the industry

the internet's impact on industry was nonexistent, as the network was still primarily an academic and military tool for research and data sharing.

1997

The rise of budget airlines

The year 1997 was a pivotal moment for the rise of budget airlines in Europe, largely due to the completion of the liberalization of the European airline market, which allowed carriers like Ryanair and easyJet to compete on price and routes.