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200 BCE
Early ages
In the beginning of times people wanted to move from place to place for many reasons:
Weather
Shortage of food and water
Hunting activities -
100 BCE
Early ages
Then, first vechicles appear to make easier the translate to one place to another:
Sledge for snowy places
Animals (camels, horses, mules)
Simply wooden platforms
And of course, the essential invention of primitive wheel systems -
1 BCE
Initial: Civilizations
People still moving from places mostly for the same reasons, but now some new factors were included in this list: religious purposes, commerce and trading routes The egipcian civilization traveled to create new monuments, exchange of slaves and leisure The greeks traveled for religious purposes ( went to Delphi to question the oracle for thir future), research trips and leisure such as the Olympic Games -
900
Roman Empire
Romans created road networks to link their cities and expand their empire. Soldiers and the elite traveled for pleasure and stayed in huge palaces and thermal baths just like the greeks did a long ago The decline of the Roman Empire caused the degeneration of the road they made. Traveling became dangerous, expensive and difficult -
1200
Initial: Discovery traveling
Later, the man started traveling to learn more about new cultures, Since XII century, educational and discover trips to achieve self realization were common A man named Marco Polo wrote a book about the journeys he made to Europe to Asia. And James Cook made trips to Australia and the South Pacific region all the way to Hawaii -
1400
Development
The desire to conquer, discover and broaden one’s experience and
knowledge spread around Europe and oriental civilizations. The world slowly began to evolve. -
1492
Discovery of America by Columbus
In August 1492, Columbus left southern Spain with three ships: Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. On October 12, after weeks at sea, the ships reached an island in the Bahamas. Columbus named this island San Salvador. He thought it was an island of India, so he called the people "Indians". Columbus next sailed farther into the Caribbean, reaching Cuba where he saw people smoking tobacco. Then he sailed back to Spain. The King and Queen gave Columbus many honors.
Also, the first passaports were issued -
Grand Tour
The Grand Tour, was a traditional trip of Europe invented by James cook undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank when they had come of age.
The ancestor of modern tourism, the custom-which flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large- scale rail transport in the 1840s and was associated with a standard itinerary-served as an educational rite of passage. -
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The Industrial Revolution
Countries change from rural to urban
Industrialization and labor rights
Expansion of the middle class -
First trip around the world
The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June of that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". -
First airplane flight
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
First solo transatlantic flight
In the early morning of Friday, 20 May 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, Mineola, New York, on his successful attempt to fly nonstop from New York to the European continental land mass. Over the next 33.5 hours, Lindbergh and the his airplane encountered many challenges before landing at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, at 10:22 p.m. on Saturday, 21 May 1927, completing the first solo crossing of the Atlantic. -
World War II
This incident paralyzed the world tourism for a couple of years but caused cheaper aircrafts and the growth of commercial airlines -
Pan Am first commercial flight
On Aug. 15, 1958, Pan Am took delivery of the United States' first commercial jet airliner, a Boeing 707-120, and began plans for Oct. 26, 1958, when Pan Am and the 707 would make history by inaugurating the first 707 service and the first daily transatlantic jet service from New York to Paris. -
Popular package holidays
Sales for the working class appear with tourism organizations and club holidays. The trips by air dropped the travel time, making the overseas traveling more attractive. Mass tourims didnt lake long to show up -
First Boeing 747 commercial flight
The very first time a 747 was used by an airline was on January 22, 1970. Pan Am used to fly from New York to London.
The 747 did quite well when it first began to be used. Some people thought that airports would not be able to handle such a big plane. However, they could.
There were some problems, but they were quite small and they were fixed quickly.
After Pan Am began to use the plane, other airlines began to use their 747s -
The Gulf War
This event affected tourism habist. Heavy drop-offs in tourist visits -
September 11 2001 attack
The traged made a drastic change in security measures in airportsin the whole world -
Global Sustainable Tourism
Tourism has become as a tool that could help conservate heritage and fight the poverty.
Also, the experimental tourism has been created to promove awareness, social and natural conservation of the enviroment by tourist activities.
Thanks to technology, internet has been incharge to promove the world tourism for work or pleasure. The influence of movies and series also promoves tourism
Tourism activities has been forced to specialize to compete, customs look for for different experiences -
Timeline made by Cristina Hellmund and Maigelly Torres
