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Jan 1, 1000
1th Olympic games in Greece (776 b.C.)
Olimpic games were athletic competitions in which athletes competed in honour to olimpus gods. This event mobilized crowds of people who stayed in hotels during the competition -
Jan 1, 1001
Roman Empire Roads (500 b.C)
The famous roads of the Roman Empire were built from about 500 BC. These roads were of several kinds, ranging from small local roads to brad, long distance highways built to connect cities, major towns and military bases. -
Jan 1, 1201
Piligrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Piligrimages to Santiago de Compostela had began in IX century but reach their highest point in the XIII century. -
Jan 1, 1386
Duomo di Milano
The Duomo di Milano is one of the biggest cathedrals of the world, and is a reference in gothic arquitecture. It was built by Antonio Salluzzo in 1386 and today people from every spot in the world go to visit it. -
Jan 1, 1522
First travel around the world
Sebastián del Cano finished the travel that Hernando de Magallanes started around the world for the first time. -
The Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was an itinerary of travel in europe very important and used between the middle of XVII century and 1820, when railroads appeared -
Cesar Ritz "the hotel`s father" (1850-1918)
He got to lead twelve hotels, is designed as "the hotel´s father" and he created the docummentation to know to the costumer -
Uruguay Football World Cup
FIFA created the first World Cup football edition. -
Predecessor of World Tourism Organization
In 1934 the International Union of Official Tourist Publicity Organization (IUOTPO) is created, but later - by the end of the second World War - it will restructured itself into the International Union of Official Travell Organization (IUOTO) whose goals were to promote tourism and extract the best of tourism as an international trade component and as a economic developments strategy -
Woodstock Music & Art Fair
Woodstock Festival The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was created in a Bethel farm (Sullivan Country, New York State) and it was a rock festival, with a massive 'hippie' attend during the 15, 16, 17 and 18 of august. -
World Tourism Organization
In 1970 the IUOTO assembly voted in favor of forming the WOT that came into operation in 1974. Although the WOT was related to de United Nations since it´s begining, only in 2003 they established the WOT as a specialized UN's agency. -
Berlin Wall Fall
Berlin Wall Fall he fall of the Berlin wall started began the november 9th in 1989. -
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air Trailer
Wacken Open Air is a summer Heavy Metal music festival that takes place anually in the small village of Wacken in Germany wich atracts about 80.000 festival visitors, and incuding personnel a total of roughly 86.000 antendees (Data of 2011)
It´s first edition counted with just 800 visitors and now it´s the biggest heavy metal event of the world and the meanly tourist atraction of the village of Wacken, -
Schengen Area
The Schengen Area is the area comprising 26 European countries that have abolished passaport and any other control at their common borders.
This agreement between european countries was established in 1995 and had a grat impact in international torurism -
Euro Creation
19 of 28 countries from the European Union started using the same coin between them. That coin was called Euro.
