Chapter 2 Flashcards
Ancient travel
Greece (leisure, sport, culture) and Rome (road networks, infrastructure)
Herodotus
Father of History, was a Greek writer and historian (first tourist?)
Pilgrimages
spiritual goals with organized routes (Santiago de Compostela and Mecca)
Renaissance (grand tour)
15th - 16th cultural journey, wealthy EU men travel for education (Italy and France)
Industrial revolution
18th - 19th transformation in tranportation
steam engine
1829 James Watt (Liverpool-Manchester railway 1830)
Thomas Cook
organized tourism package tours 1840s (middle-class, leisure)
Advent of air travel
boing 707 -> 1958
Tourist boom
1950-1973, post war peace and economic recovery
60s
sun-and-beach tourims
70s
oil crisis and establishment of familiy-tourism models
80s
divertification led to experimental and culture tourism
Technical advances
ICT tools -> improved infrastructure and marketing expanded tourism markets globally
Hotel Ritz
1910 (luxury hotel)
National Commision for Tourism
first EU travel agency
first air transport regulations
1919
Parador de gredor
1928, launch of paradores network -> cultural preservation
1931 (visitors spain)
276.300
post war growth
1950-1973
first Iberia flight
1927 (mass)
1973
oil crisis -> impacted tourism
2008
financial crisis (reliance on international tourism!)
covid-19
more domestic tourism