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Period: 400 to Dec 31, 1400
Middle Ages
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Grand Tour
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Industrial Revolution
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Steam Ships
Steam Ships become essential to the developement of tourism in the 1920s on the North Shore and Isle Royale. To help commerical fisherman with their income, the took in overnight guests. By doing this they helped to promote resorts on land and transport potential guests. -
Thomas Cook
Started the first railway transportation in England. -
Motor Car
The invention motor car was essential for the "pursuit" of leisure and tourism. Motor cars were mainly used for short and medium sized journeys and the amount of holiday makers travelling by a car on road increseased immensly. -
Aviation
When the first form aviation transport was invented by the Wright brothers, it allowed people to travel between places quickly and easily, making it the preffered form of transport in the tourism industry. -
Attacks on Twin Towers
The September 11 attacks caused tourism in New York City to plummit, which caused devosating losses in a sector which before the attacks, generated 25 billion dollars annually. The attacks caused 3,000 people to loose jobs due to the 40% decrease in hotel occupancy. Tourism, hotel occupancy and flying also fell significantly across America. -
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Global Financial Crisis
The 2009 global financial crisis impacted international tourism, causing declines in international tourist arrivals and revenues. -
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Health Spas
In 2012, within the global tourism economy of 3.2 trillion US dollars, wellness tourism was estimated to be 14 percent of all 2012 domestic and international tourism expenditures, or 438.6 billion US dollars. On average, wellness tourists usually spend 130 percent more than the average tourist, anually.
