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1500 BCE
ANCIENT EGYPT
First movements to visit the pyramids (religious or pleasure) -
776 BCE
ANCIENT GREECE
The first Olympic Games in Olympia (four years). -
500 BCE
ANCIENT GREECE
Movements to visit Parthenon.
First lodges (unconfortable) -
424 BCE
ANCIENT GREECE
Herodoto de Halicarnaso wrote about his travels and adeventures (travel guides). -
300 BCE
ANCIENT ROME
- Improved the communications.
- Travel guides with symbols of accommodation quality. Movements to visit temples, baths, circus, ...
- Wealthy class had second residences in destinations like Naples.
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1000
MIDDLE AGES
Travels with religious purposes (Santiago de Compostela or Holy Land). -
1400
RENAISSANCE
- Wellness tourism or health and spa tourism in destinations like Bath (England), Spa (Belgium) and Baden-Baden (Germany).
- Long-distance travels and more comfortable.
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XVIIItn century
Grand Tour: wealthy young Englishmen who spent several month traveling in Europe after finishing his formal schooling. -
XIXth century
- Karl Baedeker is considered the father of the Tourist Guides Books (First one was published in 1839).
- Cesar Ritz created the first modern hotel.
- Thomas Cook organize the first package trip or all-inclusive travel. He’s the father of the Travel Agencies . He was a pioneer with the travelers’ check and the vouchers.
- Henry Wells and William G. Fargo created American Express.
- George M. Pullman: developed the wagon-lit (modern railway).
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XXth century
- Beore the First World War: improvement of the transport.
- Second World War: technology progress on aviation.
- Petrol crisis.
- UNWTO was born in 1974.
- 1987: air transport liberalisation
- 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Low cost airlines stirred up the sector.
- Terrorist attack: booking cancellations and more safety measures.
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XXIth century
12 countries share the common currency (easier movement in this geografical area)
