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HISTORY OF TOURISM

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  • 1500 BCE

    ANCIENT EGYPT

    ANCIENT EGYPT
    First movements to visit the pyramids
  • 770 BCE

    GREECE

    GREECE
    Great assistance to Olympic Games (Every four years).
    Annual religious festival in Parthenon.
    First travel book made by Herodoto.
  • 330 BCE

    ROME

    ROME
    Create Via Apia to develop connections.
    Caracalla were the first place where Romans went on holidays.
  • 1500

    MIDDLE AGES

    MIDDLE AGES
    Crusades + Religious wars = Less tourism.
    Increase religious pilgrimages.

  • RENNAISANCE

    RENNAISANCE
    Set the bases of Modern Tourism.
    Expeditions= More tourists.
    Therapeutical vacation (Bath, England)

  • XVIII CENTURY

    XVIII CENTURY
    Travel as part of young aristocrats education.
    Invention of railway.
    Coast and river tourism seeking for health benefits.

  • XIX CENTURY

    XIX CENTURY
    Cesar Ritz: Father of moder hotel industry.
    Thomas Cook: First travel agency.
    Karl Baedekers: First travel guides, Reliable hotels, start using stars for rate quality of hotels.
    Henry Wells & W. Fargo: Founder of American express, developed Traveler´s cheque and Vouchers.
    George M. Pullman (Pullman sleeping car): Luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travels.
    - Economical increase.
    - Industrial revolution.
    - Bourgeoisie
    -Transoceanic journeys.

  • XX CENTURY

    XX CENTURY
    When WWI started 150.000 tourists in Europe.
    WWII: Total stoppage of tourism until 1949.
    1974: Establishment of UNWTO in Madrid.
    Amadeus (1987): Revolutionary reservation system for travel agencies.
    La Haya Tourism declaration (1989)
    Low cost airlines: First Southwest airlines.

  • XXI CENTURY

    XXI CENTURY
    Euro.
    Cheaper flights.
    Bolkesteink: Liberalization and Competiton.
    Economic Crisis (2007-2008): Decrease of tourism.
    "A" Flu (2009)
    International tourism records: 2012 china.