Key Historical Developments in the Travel and Tourism Sector

1.1 Explain key historical developments in the travel
and tourism sector supported by a timeline chart of
major developments over the period
Earliest forms of Tourism
The following were the reasons of travelling during the
3000BC.
•Governmental obligation such as military duty.
• Trade
•Religion purposes such as visiting the healing sites
•Leisure such as sports.

Early guides
The early travelers used the following instruments
go get the information of their destination.
•Travelogues
•Letters
• diaries
Modes of transport
•From circa 3000BC they used costal and river
vessels, donkeys and solid-wheeled wagons drawn
by oxen.

Continued
•From circa 1000BC they used horse to draw the
wagons.
•In the middle age they walked on foot, used litter,
horseback, and carriers wagon.
•Between 17th and 19th century they used sprung coach,
stagecoach, improved roads such as turnpikes and
tarmacadam and from 1832 onwards they used
charbancs.
Rise and decline of UK spas
Rise
•Discovery of “healing waters”
•Development of renaissance

Continued
•Support of aristocracy which led to higher social status of
visits.
•Spas became entertainment sites hence becoming an
essential social avenue
Decline
•Decline of markers attached to spas.
•Challenges in catering for new mass tourist arrivals.
•Rise of alternative to spas such as seawater bath
•Growth of more conservative population.
•Withdrawal of financial support