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  • 1440

    Invention of printing.

    The first guides for travelers appeared. Also the travelers start writing their travel logs.

  • Sightseeing is born.

  • Royalty starts taking pleasure trips, the “gastronomic travel literature” is born.

  • LE GRAND TOUR

    Started “Le grand Tour”, the goal was to finish the education of the aristocratic men.

  • Tourism revolution

    the tourism industry started to develop. There is a notion of the word “tourist”. “The Italian Mania”: Italians began the interpretation of landscape paintings.

  • Invention of the bicycle

    revolutionized the tourism industry, freeing them from the public transport and the established schedules of them.

  • Thomas Cook first group excursion, known as the first organized trip. TOUR PACKAGE.

  • 1st travel agency “Thomas Cook & Son”.

  • T. Cook created the “vouchers”.

  • the bicycle started to get the attention from the “Touring Club” of France as a tourism tool.

  • The british “Fox” introduces skiing to Grindelwald, Switzerland

  • Inauguration of the luxurious Ritz Paris Hotel in France.

  • "Davos British Ski Club"

    Sir Conan Doyle created the “Davos British Ski Club”. Also, Kandahar created one of the most prestigious world competitions called “Arlberg Kandahar”. The “Lunn” and Davos spreaded the tourist invention to different parts of Switzerland.

  • Appearance of the funicular.

  • Henry Ford’s mass production of the Model T brought individual freedom to travel, opening new horizons for millions of people.

  • Period: to

    World war I, tourism stagnates.

  • Russian revolution.

  • KLM Royal Dutch airline first commercial airline, Netherlands.

  • First scheduled airline passenger flight debuts between London and Paris.

  • the development of “Juan Les Pins” began (a fancy beach in France).

  • Appears the word “Tourist” as a concept.

  • “Pomagalski” invented the Ski-lift.