A history of tourism
Tourism probably started in Roman times. Rich Romans wanted to visit friends and family who were working in another part of the Roman world. The Romans built roads , at first these roads were for the army , and traverses stayed in small hotels next to these roads. But when the Roman Empire ended, this kind of tourism stopped. In the early seventeenth century , the idea of the Grand Tour started. Rich young English people went across the English Channel to France , and then visited the most beautiful and important European cities of the time. The tour lasted for two to four years, and the tourists stayed a few weeks or months in each city. They usually visited Paris , Rome , Venice and Florence . Sometimes , they visited cities in Spain , Portugal and Germany, too. The Grand Tour was an important part of education but only for very rich.
In the eighteen century, tourism began to change . For example , people start to visit towns like Bath in the UK to take the water. They believed that drinking the water in those towns was good for them. Large and expensive hotel were built in these towns. Travelers became much easier and faster. When the first railways were built in the 1820s and 1830s , it was easier for people to travel between towns, so they started to go for holidays in towns by the sea. They also started to have holidays in the countryside, because cities became larger , noisier and dirtier. Travelling by sea became faster when the first streamships were built, so people began to travel to more distant countries. Go on , there was more and more tourism. People started to have more money and more time. Until 1008, workers did not usually have holidays from work. But by 1951, 66 per cent of British workers had two weeks holidays a year. Travel became cheaper and easier during the twentieth century. More people had cars. Planes became larger can could carry more people , so plane tickets became cheaper.
At the present , many companies founded . With packets holiday was born and the companies put everything together - plane ticket , hotel , even food. And tourist pays for it all before she or he leaves home. Many other countries started to sell package holiday from the UK to Spain . Finally , the modern tourist was beginning.
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