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When Elizabeth I ruled, men who had a position at court were encouraged to travel to visit cultural areas of Europe, they called this the Grand Tour and was started in 1670, after this numbers of destinations surfaced and was open to the British travelers, Avignon and Montpellier. -
roman empire established how beneficial spas can be within the UK, popular ones were Bath and Buxton which became important centers in the early nineteen centuries. spas were mostly popular because of their health benefits from the mineral waters bubbled up but also became centers of high fashion, in the early nineteenth century the resorts went down market and was replaced by wealthy merchants and the professional class. due to the increase in UK seaside resorts it lost its popularity. -
health theorists found that the minerals found in spas were also found in seawater, a spa town, Scarborough was loosing popularity and Brighton and Blackpool were gaining a lot of attention. Travelling to these resorts were expensive but in the nineteenth century steamboats were serviced from London to the popular resorts. due to these steamboats more of these resorts were visited even distant ones, in result of this popular attraction piers were built in the popular destinations.
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from 1830 rail way routes started construction from main centers, seaside resorts of the UK and by 1840 the train travel was so popular and the annual number of passengers was 51 million, social changes in the 19th century encouraged rail travel leading to the type of family holidays which was well suited for seaside resorts. rail travel soon expanded and went to travel to continents, such as Blue train between Paris and the cote d'Azur
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People have always travelled. As far back as history shows us, people have been travelling for many different reasons, this could be to visit family or even to invade other countries. This timeline will show some of the main developments in tourism.