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Tourism

Seaside resorts became popular
THE TRAIN thanks to railway links
LEAVES THE

STATION

ENGLAND 1830
The age of railway was
gathering steam as the
Liverpool to Manchester line
opened in the UK. Far cheape
and faster than travelling
by coach, by 1900 Britain
boasted 22,000 miles of
track. Remote fishing villages
became popular destinations
for day trips and everyone Passengers could dine in luxury
aboard the Orient Express
could afford to go thanks Travelling in style
to three different classes of FRANCE 4 OCTOBER 1883
travel. Not everybody was on On board the Orient Express, James Bond fought a rival spy and Hercule Poirot
board, however, as the Duke solved his most famous crime. The long-distance train departed from Paris
of Wellington complained and travelled to Giurgiu in Romania, via Munich and Vienna, and only the rich
that railways “would only could afford a ticket. Adorned with wooden panelling, silk sheets and leather
encourage the lower classes t armchairs, the Express was the epitome of European elegance and intrigue,
move about.” proving that there was indeed a market for premium-priced tourism services.

O The Bahamas O Welcome to O Theme parks O Disaster strikes O Off with O Chinese tourists
opens its doors the motel transform When four your shoes splash out
The Hotel and The first Florida commercial Full-body Chinese travellers
Steam Ship Service motel opens Walt Disney airliners were used scanners start are officially
Act provides in Memphis, World Resort as weapons of replacing crowned the
government United States, opens its gates destruction, tourism metal biggest spenders
support for to meet the and adds to the United detectors in international
tourism in Nassau, needs of a $14 billion States declined. at airports tourism, overtaking
promoting it as a growing number to Orlando’s US Congress issues around the Germany and the
fashionable winter of tourists economy in its grantstokeep world. United States.
season resort. Just one of the many travelling by car. first year. airlines flying. 2007 2012
1898 motels in America, 1952 1971 11 September 2001 Full-body scanners take 15
designed for motorists seconds to check a passenger
1900 1950 1970 1990 2000 2010 2015

O Experience O The Spanish miracle O Welcome to O Biometric passports O Tourism takes a hit
New Zealand This economic boom, Buckingham come into play A volatile global
Long before Hobbits lovingly called the Palace The ePassport is economy, exchange
put New Zealand on Spanish miracle, The State Rooms introduced, containing rate fluctuations and an
the map, it becomes sees investment in of the palace data about the outbreak of the H1N1
the first country to infrastructure and open to members passenger’s biometrics, influenza virus causes
dedicate a government development, making it of the public using facial, fingerprint international tourism
department to tourism. a hugely popular tourist while the queen is A biometric British passport and iris recognition. to suffer.
1901 destination. Buckingham Palace is the UK’s not in residence. can be used at ePassport 2006 2008-09
1959-74 top tourist attraction 1993 gates to avoid queues

Cruising into the future The first transatlantic
GERMANY 1901 The Lufthansa crew outside the flight takes off
The world’s first purpose-built cruise ship airliner that would fly them non- GERMANY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1938
stop from Berlin to New York
was christened The Prinzessin Victoria Thousandsofpeoplegatheredforthelanding
Luise, named after Kaiser Wilhelm II’s of the world’s first non-stop transatlantic
daughter. In true regal style, it offered flight.Theplanelandedintheafternoon
120 cabins – all first class – fine dining, a of 11 August 1938 in Floyd Bennett Field in
gym and a daily newspaper printed on Brooklyn, New York, after making a record-
board. Some modifications were even breaking flight from Berlin, Germany. It took
recommended by the emperor himself, just under 25 hours to cross the Atlantic
but he was disappointed that it was and touched down to cheers from amazed
longer than the royal yacht. On 5 January onlookers.TheaircraftwasaFocke-WulfFw
1901, it departed Hamburg on its maiden 200 Condor and was developed in Germany
White paint became trendy after the voyage to New York, marking the start of andusedthroughoutWorldWarIIasalong-
Prinzessin, which was designed to keep @ Alamy; Look and Learn
the ship cool in the Mediterranean the modern cruise holiday. range maritime bomber.

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