Revision
DIMENSIONS OF TOURISM REVISION
* How has tourism evolved over the ages? * What factors have influenced its growth?
DARK AGES * Premodern & modern tourism * Started in the Dark ages with the nomadic movement of people and survival was the focus rather than tourism then it moved to Mesopotamia and technological factor allowed easy movement of people which facilitated tourism * Then Greece ancient Rome again infrastructure played a major roles road networkds and the birth of issues that influences tourism travel such as entry visas and all the separation of countries entrance even though they were under the roman empire... * Currency and rise of resorts and emergence of a large wealthy class.
GRAND TOUR * Arrival of carriage rentals and other transport rentals first travel guides * Launch of tourism marketing materials and industrial revolution * Sea side resorts construction * Industrial revolution helped in many forms of transport costs as it was not all bad because places like Brighton in the UK gave growth to the need of people to get out of cities and the rail networks linking up areas and making people feel like travelling.... * Technology and the rise and the Cunnards cruise ships. * Early flights technology
THOMAS COOK TOURS EXAM QN
Rise of mass tourism mass tourism came from this development of tourism and tour operators form the rising of timetables and other technological elements and the presence of the route itself and the notion of adapting the principles of the industrial revolution to tourism.
POST THOMAS COOK * Various economic and policies factors hindered tourism growth. * The real rise of a mass global tourism industry... * The Thomas cook industry was localised and the scope was more local but it wasn’t a global phenomenon at that point but the early rise of the jet engine with the airlines and the rise of the new forms of technology like the GPS that came out of the
* How has tourism evolved over the ages? * What factors have influenced its growth?
DARK AGES * Premodern & modern tourism * Started in the Dark ages with the nomadic movement of people and survival was the focus rather than tourism then it moved to Mesopotamia and technological factor allowed easy movement of people which facilitated tourism * Then Greece ancient Rome again infrastructure played a major roles road networkds and the birth of issues that influences tourism travel such as entry visas and all the separation of countries entrance even though they were under the roman empire... * Currency and rise of resorts and emergence of a large wealthy class.
GRAND TOUR * Arrival of carriage rentals and other transport rentals first travel guides * Launch of tourism marketing materials and industrial revolution * Sea side resorts construction * Industrial revolution helped in many forms of transport costs as it was not all bad because places like Brighton in the UK gave growth to the need of people to get out of cities and the rail networks linking up areas and making people feel like travelling.... * Technology and the rise and the Cunnards cruise ships. * Early flights technology
THOMAS COOK TOURS EXAM QN
Rise of mass tourism mass tourism came from this development of tourism and tour operators form the rising of timetables and other technological elements and the presence of the route itself and the notion of adapting the principles of the industrial revolution to tourism.
POST THOMAS COOK * Various economic and policies factors hindered tourism growth. * The real rise of a mass global tourism industry... * The Thomas cook industry was localised and the scope was more local but it wasn’t a global phenomenon at that point but the early rise of the jet engine with the airlines and the rise of the new forms of technology like the GPS that came out of the