A History of Modern Tourism
About this book
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications. However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the origins and evolution of this pursuit from earliest times to the present. From a new understanding of aesthetics to scientific change, from the invention of steam power to the creation of aircraft, from an elite form of education to family car trips to see national 'shrines, ' this book offers a sweeping and engaging overview of a fascinating story not yet widely known.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Modern tourism
- 1 Beginnings: The Grand Tour
- 2 The sublime and beautiful
- 3 The age of steam
- 4 Packaging new trips
- 5 Guidebooks and the importance of seeing the sights
- 6 Tourism in an age of empires and nationalism
- 7 Bicycles, automobiles, and aircraft
- 8 Tourism during the interwar years
- 9 Tourism in the postwar
- 10 Mass tourism
- Conclusion: “Never ask an historian about the future”
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
