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Spa town and the Grand tour
From the grand tour which was a principally trip around Europe during the 17th to early 19th-century. A custom trip to famous landmarks across Europe for Young men to be educated on travel and tourism. Now from the 21st century the development in travel and tourism has been significant. -
Vladimir Raitz
Vladimir was the first to operate holidays by charter flight, and was the first to initiated the package holidays industry in 1949. -
The change in leisure time
The holidays with pay act was passaged in1938 as more and more peoples working hours were cut to estimate 35 hours from 50 hours. People are now healthier so they are living a longer life but they have more time off for leisure time during there working days. Now people get around 4 to 5 weeks of holiday and leisure time to go abode or travel domestically. -
The rise and fall of holiday camps
In 1930s the first holiday camp was born in Skegness created by Billy Butlin and Butlins was the most popular holiday camp with food and competitions and is still available to visit today. During the 1970s the holiday camps started to decline, however some family's still wanted the holiday camp type of holiday so Center Parcs came to the UK in 1987 as a now new 'European style'' holiday camp and is still an ongoing and popular holiday destination for family's now. -
How the internet has changed the industry
When booking a holiday the majority of people will no longer seek advise and support when booking from a travel agent but do everything themselves. From booking flights to hotels, activity's and even food you can now do online, everything is available to be booked for different websites and you can even look for advise and reviews of your destination online. This increase of technology use in the travel industry has declined the about of high street agents. -
Rail ways and beach holidays
And the development in rail travel to encourage domestic travel to beach resorts and spa towns two popular holiday destinations during the mid 19th century. -
Development of package holidays
From 1992 all UK tour operators started to offer package holidays to everyone however Thomas cook in 8141 started there day trip package holidays and he started the whole real package holidays on a day trip on the train. The first abroad package holiday was to Corsica, France in 1950 just to 32 camping. -
The rise of budget airlines
In 1997 'low cost' airlines popularity increased, Ryan air and easy jet have kept growing and expanding there aircrafts and businesses for over the last 20 years. Budget airlines are more likely to use the following airports, Bristol and Stansted are a lot cheaper than using a much bigger airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick airport as they are so much more popular and expensive. Traveling has become more affordable from the choice and competition of airlines. -
Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements 2018
One of the many laws that involve the travel industry. It is protection for when you expect the holiday you have booked but have not received. For example if your hotel has not been built or your transportation never shows even if you have pre paid. you must let the travel and linked travel arrangements know immediately of the situation so you can be completely saved and covered financially. -
The development of Travel and Tourism introduction
Travel and tourism has developed significantly in the last 100 years. the space inside of aircrafts are constantly improving so you can take lots of passengers to their destinations. Travel and tourism began when people would move away for war and then decide to stay so naturally there family would want to go with them, over the years people then wanted to spend there days off and leisure time abroad. Technology will continue to get better and better through out the years also. -
Bibliography
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/sep/09/vladimir-raitz-obituary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
travel and tourism level 2 E-Book
https://www.tts.com/blog/the-rise-of-low-cost-carriers-a-new-era-for-travel-agents
https://www.butlins.com/about-us/our-timeline
https://www.jet2.com/news/2023/01/New_research_reveals_the_rise_of_the_package_holiday_