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Development of travel, leisure and recreation and tourism - By: vivek_tam


Other reasons were the long-distance travel trade and the economic and political power relations with other colonies and dependent territories. Wealthy Romans had estates in the provinces they visited from time to time. The "Northmen" traveled to Greenland and America , the Arabs throughout the Indian Ocean . Not infrequently, the time travel were understood by the "sojourner" as aggression or war.

Europe recovered after the Great Migration (travel theme: better living conditions) only slowly from its economic and political decline (as for example in China and Japan, stable conditions prevailed). Soon became lively pilgrimage tourism in Europe. Along these pilgrimage routes and verkehrsgeografisch favored locations (ports, crossroads of trade routes) arose in all continents, trading centers, which in turn spawned commercial travelers. Also evolved to travel by sea routes, were here, what Europe is concerned, the maritime republic of Venice , as well as Portugal and Spain, as mentioned earlier colonial powers. The "Serenissima" had regular boat connection with Constantinople , Marco Polo traveled as far as we are to believe his statements, according to the land of China .

Christian pilgrims to the 19th Century on room and board instructed in church hostels, mostly because they had no assets. To self-determination was traveling in Europe until the fifties of the 20th Century, the small proportion of the population subject to, the travel could pay for the expensive, outside Europe, this is largely true today. In particular, travel for educational purposes has long been a privilege of the nobility, who called his sons to Kavaliersreisen sent, and later the upper middle class. Recreational trips was unclear. These arrived in Europe in the 19th Century. It is the Industrial Revolution as the turning point to be considered. While traveling to the Industrial Revolution should always serve a particular purpose, now traveling himself was the cause.

The history of tourism is the story of traveling nearly identical. However, there have been in the development of strong regional differences. The mountaineering , the end of the 18th Century on the European continent began strongly, tourism brought modest first in Switzerland , in the 19th Century in Austria (28 July 1800: First ascent of the Grossglockner , then 1856: visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elizabeth Franz-Josefs-height), at the turn of the 20th Century in coastal towns such as Nice , Grado and Opatija . They were mostly European climbers who worthwhile destinations in other continents were mountains, watching the ascent of the locals, as before, even in Europe, no reason. Spa Tourism difference, except for ritual ablutions, from many different cultures for religious reasons.

Founder of the international adventure tourism in Europe, the British were: Thomas Cook is considered the inventor of the package . In the last decades of the 19th Century the upper classes of England because of the revenue from the British Empire so prosperous that they were the first to travel to distant, for tourism could still barely afford developed areas. The military might of the Empire (with offices in all continents) and the British fleet offered to the desired security. The British example was imitated in continental Europe soon.

The right to leave (leave entitlement) is known in Europe and North America since about 1880, but could, if it is not acted on unpaid leave, but days off, where the content goes further claim on a large scale until the 20th Century will be enforced. According to § 24 of the Convention on Human Rights , there is the right to rest. Even the Soviet Union had explicitly mentioned in one of its last constitution in Article 41, the promotion of tourism.

In German-speaking countries in the 20th Century, the organized tours of the Strength Through Joy program of the National Socialists , the first approach to mass tourism, and soon had the KdF ships of the superior care of the Nazis proclaimed for the working people, however, be rezoned to hospital ships. After the Second World War it was initially difficult in Germany and Austria, to be able to travel at all. The zone boundaries of the Allied occupation zones were impassable for most of the population. In the early 1950s but then began in West Germany and Austria, an increase in travel activity of all social layers, and because increased significantly as a result of technological development and social leisure.

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