History of Tourism By facebooker_2639350626124514 776 BCE Olympic Games Period: 1600 to 1799 Grand Tours Period: 1800 to 1899 Modern Form of industry tourism 1807 Car Invention 1830 First Railway 1840 First Football game 1850 Mass tourism birth 1950 First commercial jet airlines 1950 Start of package holiday Sep 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack