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. Most European countries lacked strict holiday rights before 1900.
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SUMMER RETREAT: healthy and economical holiday
THIS CONCEPT BORN IN 1836 but is after the crisis of the First World War, the summer retreat offered a simple, healthy and economical holiday, which from the 1920s was accessible to employees and workers on low incomes -
Born of IATA(International Air Transport Association)
IATA was formed in April 1945 in Havana, Cuba. It is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association, which was formed in 1919 at The Hague, Netherlands. -
IUOTO :International Union of Official Travel Organisations
The First Constitutive Assembly of the International Union of Official Travel Organisations (IUOTO) is held in The Hague. The temporary IUOTO headquarters are established in London. -
AIR TRANSPORTATION
Air transport become cheaper -
BOEING 707
PAN AM the firs airline that used the 707 to comercial flight.New York to Paris.More than 170passengers in the aircraft -
The apex of European tourism began in the 1960s
in response to the economic situation and strategic innovations in the market economy, commercial tour op-erators and travel companies transformed the nature of competition through increasingly cheaper offers, propelling it in the direction of mass tourism, introducing new destinations and modes of holidaying. -
United Federation of Travel Agents' Association (UFTAA)
e United Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations (UFTAA) emanates from the Universal Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations created in Rome, Italy, on November 22nd, 1966. UFTAA was originally founded as a result of a merger of two large world organisations, FIAV and UOTAA, recognising the need to unify travel agencies and tour-operators into one international federation. -
BOEING 747
400-660 passengers depending on the model -
From about 1970 foreing holidays
From about 1970, journeys abroad clearly represented the majority; this trend towards foreign holidays has recently grown even stronger. In general, the number of teenagers and adults taking foreign holidays rose more than threefold over the 40 years before 1991 – from nine to 32 million. -
WTO World Tourism Organization
First WTO General Assembly meets in May in Madrid at the invitation of the Spanish Government. Robert Lonati is voted in as the first WTO Secretary-General and the Assembly decides to establish its headquarters in Madrid. -
STUDY AND CONTROL OF TOURISM
UNWTO 1991:(The International Conference on Travel and Tourism Statistics in Ottawa (Canada) adopts a resolution defining the statistical needs of the tourism industry.
From 1975 until today they have worked in constant assemblies to improve and establish conditions, towards a sustainable tourism
