The history of tourism is where tourism started how it changed and how it has impacted on the lives of people in the 20 century from trading to selling .

1. THE HISTORY OF TOURISM
WHEN AND HOW DID
TOURISM START??????

2. The evolution of tourism
• It is difficult to pinpoint a precise point in
time when tourism as we understand it today
began
• It evolved over time
• UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO TOURISM
(Contributed)
• Building on needs, feelings and desires of
society

4. EVOLUTION
• SEASIDE RESORTS
• Universal Right to Tourism
• INDUSTRIAL ERA (THE AGE OF STEAM) – THE RISE
OF INCOME AND VOCATIONAL LEAVE, and
FREEDOM to MOVEMENT
• URBANISATION (AGRICULTURAL TO INDUSTRIAL)
EVOLUTION

5. Factors influencing growth after the
Grand Tour
• CHANGING LIVING STANDARDS
• Paid holidays each year = Greater
disposable income
• Shorter working week = Fewer working
hours
• Higher educational levels
• Labour saving devices commuter travel

6. Factors influencing growth after the
Grand Tour and beyond
• CHANGING SOCIAL PATTERNS
• Communication revolution
• Increasing life expectancy
• Early retirement
• Changing living standards
• Changing social patterns
• Development in transportation
• Ageing population

7. History of travel inside Africa
• Africa – referred to as the DARK CONTINENT
• Nomadic reasons
• Travel for trade purposes
• Travel for religious reasons (Mecca)
• Travel for political reasons
• Travel for intermarriage between different
tribes and ethnic groups

8. 16th and 17th Century
• 16th Century: Pilgrimages (Greeks and the Romans)
• 17th Century: Polite visiting “ spas’s and Seaside –
Linked to Social class development.
• (resort development)
• 18TH Century: THE GRAND TOUR
• INDUSTRIALISATION (technology advances)
• (social and economic improvement, greater
disposable income, free time for leisure purposes.

9. What contributes to the growth in the
20 century
• Consumer side:
• Greater disposable income
• Fewer working hours
• Higher educational levels
• Rapid and dispersed economic development
• Major improvements in transportation
• Textbook pg 43-44

10. 20th Century
• Social and technological development
• Rapid advances in transportation technology
• Social and political factors accompanied by
progress in communication technology
• Virtually removing the distance and shrinking
the world = Globalisation
• Social norms continue to change / annual
leave

11. 20th Century post 1970
• Internationalization and Globalization of tourism
• Changed in technology
• Fuel efficiency
• Legislative environment
• Political en economical events
• Rise of the consumer society
• Changing products
• Rise of Heritage tourism

12. TOURISM – THE BIGGEST INDUSTRY
TODAY
GLOBALISATION
• World linked by telecommunication
• Open to international trade / social / political
influence
• Advances in information technology
• Internet
• Satellite TV
• Mobile technology,
• Financial Deregulation
• The world has become smaller

14. COMPARE OLD AND NEW TOURISM
• New Tourism
• IT advance
• travellers complain
• environmental knowledge- more aware
• experience travellers (3rd generation)
• special interest holidays
• desire quality due to less travel time
• cultural awareness/sensitive – due to more media
exposure
• adventurous travellers
• Ageing population
• Space tourism / niche market tourism

15. Recent development
• People travel for short breaks
• Wide range of budget and tastes
• Wide variety of resorts hotels and destinations
• Or other more specialized holidays
• Quieter resorts
• Family orientated holidays
• Niche market target destinations
• Transport infrastructure
• Changes in lifestyles

16. Recent developments
• Sustainable tourism
• Ecotourism
• Pro-poor tourism
• Recession tourism
• Medical tourism
• Educational tourism
• Experiential tourism
• Dark tourism
• Social tourism
• Doom tourism (environmentally threatened Mt Kilimanjaro
glaciers of Patagonia, coral of the Great Barrier Reef,
Maldives, Italy

17. GROWTH
• SPACE TOURISM
• SPORT TOURISM

18. IMPORTANT TERMINOLOGY
• Elite travel / Grand Tour
• Urbanization
• Short haul travel / Long haul travel
• Industrialization – Universal right to tourism
• 3’S and now 4’S
• Mass Tourism / individualised tourism
• Pilgrimages / religious tourism
• Globalization
• Commodification
• Disneyfication
• McDonaldisation
• Gamification
• Personification

20. References
• https://www.slideshare.net/ethelkondo/the-history-of-
tourism?next_slideshow=1
• https://www.slideshare.net/reymarieoohlala/history-of-the-development-
of-tourism?next_slideshow=1
• https://www.slideshare.net/cbrindusoiu/history-of-tourism-14639849
• https://www.slideshare.net/hillarypjenkins/tourism-history
• https://www.slideshare.net/dominiquemartel/history-of-tourism-
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