What is the objective behind studying the history of tourism?
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Various academic disciplines have repeatedly sought to re-evaluate
the significance of tourism. Globalised tourism's socio-economic place
within the framework of the leisure and holidaying opportunities on
offer today has attracted particular attention. Such accounts often
leave out the fact that this also has a history. The present article
aims to overcome this shortcoming: it seeks to present an overview of
the important structures, processes, types and trends of tourism against
the background of historical developments. It deals with early forms of
travel in the classical world and the Middle Ages, as well as the
precursors of modern tourism, Bildungsreisen ("educational journeys")
and the middle-class culture of travel. It then examines the boom in
mass tourism in the 19th century and the unique expansion of tourism in
the 1960s characterised by new forms of holidaying and experience shaped
by globalisation.
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