TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION AND TOURISM:-

However, something more than aesthetic was required to wake tourism what it is today. This impetus was provided by the Industrial Revolution. Long distance travel became comfortable and attractive, as well as safer and faster than the horse and carriage or sailing vessels. This was achieved by the growth of railroads in Great Britain and Western Europe starting in the 1840’s and also by the invention of the steel built oceangoing steamship in the 1880’s with these two technological.

advances, the great age of luxury travel began. This was the phenomenon in which the rich American could also participate once crossing the Atlantic was possible without any risky obstructions.

By Victorian times, tourism had become an industry. Karl Baedeker and his son began providing travelers with guide books in several languages Thomas cook whose travel agency in London began providing guided tours of Europe and later of united States as well.

The Dance of package Holidays:-

On the 5th of July, 1841, at Leicester station, a historic journey began with Thomas cook’s wary first emersions an emersions that would change the face of travel and tourism.

Initially, cook organized many wore trips for the cause of temperance. In 1854, he channeled his organizing skills for profit and arranged emersion for the general public to all parts of the country. He chartered entire trains and sold round fare tickets at bargain prices earlier, travel for leisure and full and full had been the privilege of the wealthy and the aristocracy. The less privilege traveled only out of necessity. Suddenly the cook’s group emersion, travel because more affordable and laces more amessible.

Nevertheless, cook did not stop there. He would check out destination, accommodations and restaurants personally to ensure that his divots got the best possible service. His A Handbook of the trip of Liverpool’ probably the first ever guidebook of its kind, gives every detail of an excursion to the city. In 1851, cook published the first ever travel imagine, ‘the emersions’, the imagine survived for almost a coutury and was published in several languages.

Thomas cook was the pioneer of tourism; his son was the ‘empire’ builder. Together, the two spread the gospel of tourism and of the weed to cater to its demands and comfort when the Smex caual opened in 1869, the cooks ware there, both to neatness the event and to explore the new frontiers it opened up. Johu cook immediately save the potential for tourism in Egypt the mysterious pyramids, the majestic Riller Nile and under his aegies; the Egyptians tourist industry took place in a few years, he had his own fleet of floating palace – boats built in Scotland and assembled at this own shipyard in Egypt – that took tourists on romantic crises down the Nile.

In 1872, Jules uorue famous novel around the world in eighty day’s captured the imagination of the world. Look, who had been toying with the idea of organizing such a trip himself, decided the time was right to strike. In sept that year, he had and passengers set out on a voyage from Boitaince, that would take them across America, Japan, China India, the Middle east, Europe and back to Britain in 22 days.

Thomas cook found dealing with Indian royalty very rewarding but equally challenging. The British were eager that cook encourage the princess and Maharajas to travel to Britain in order to arouse in there a souse of loyalty to the Empire, the actual implementation of the schemes, however, was a daunting task. The Indian prices insisted on waking the Journey with their entire court, including mices combines, pet tigers, sacred cows, elephants, and even pieces of artillery. But that did not deter cook he even set up a special primes department in 1886 to took after their special needs.

Close of the 19th century saw a rise in American tourism which made a beginning with annual local immigrations to mocutain seashore summer homes, followed by longer trips to fashionable spas as Saratoga spring New York, white sulphur springs and Hot springs. Ask and also leisurely trips up and down the Mississippi and ohio ricers it is from here that the concept of floating hotels, emerged, these were knower as paddle wheel steamers the development of the sleeping or by George M. pullneace in the 1860’s opened the way to comfortable, palatial long distance travel thus popularity the idea of cross country trips and interest in national parks and resources in America as in Europe. The development of the Automobile industry based on mass productions opened tourism to the middle classes. It was the widespread ownerships of cars which revolutionsed resort travel; these resorts which were recreational sites were situated for from the cities and railroad stations.

Therefore the growth of tourism due to technological revolution revalues around the –

a) Introduction of railways – it increased the opportunity for escape and is a powerful means of mass travel.

b) Sea transport and growth of shipping technology – Today sea cruising is are attractive mode of travel providing the travelers leisure and pleasure.

c) Developed road transport.

d) Revolutionized international air travel.