alannahs 1900 to 2000 travel and tourism developments

fords first motor car

Oct 1, 1908

first motor car built by ford was a ford model t
car was also known as a tin lizzy

titanic was built

Mar 30, 1909

first unsinkable ship built. to carry passangers from britan to america
but in 1912 it sunk when it hit an icebergre on its first sail.

First package tour

Jul 27, 1949

First package tour was organised by
Vladimir Raitz – to Corsica with 32
passengers on a DC3 aeroplane
hey paid £32.50 all in, less than half the cost of a scheduled flight to Nice at the time.

Boeing 707 passenger aircraftintroduced

Jul 15, 1954

first flight that could carry upto 219 passangers

concoder was invented

Apr 9, 1969

britan and france came together to make concorde the first plane that traveled faster than sound

Channel Tunnel opened

May 6, 1994

freight and passanger trains used it but in 1996 a fire in a lorry badly dammaged the tunnel