Prospects for Polar Tourism
Tourism or travel for pleasure results from a spreading of prosperity that is relatively recent in the history of mankind. Early travellers crossed oceans and continents to seek wealth, to colonize new lands, to exploit human populations and resources, or to right real or imagined wrongs. Travel...
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| Language: | English |
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CABI
2014
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| Online Access: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36430 |
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| Institutions: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Summary: | Tourism or travel for pleasure results from a spreading of prosperity that is
relatively recent in the history of mankind. Early travellers crossed oceans and
continents to seek wealth, to colonize new lands, to exploit human populations
and resources, or to right real or imagined wrongs. Travel for its own sake, to
satisfy curiosity or to learn, required surplus wealth, time and motivation, and
was rare before the 18th century. Among the earliest tourists were the scions of
wealthy families, a tiny minority of the population, seeking culture in the
discomforts and dangers of the European Grand Tour. During the 19th and
early 20th centuries, steamships and expanding railroad networks vigorously
promoted commercial tourism. Entrepreneurs exploited these new transport
modes, allowing a broader spectrum of people affordable access to a wide
variety of attractions.
Following World War II, international prosperity, accompanied by
commercial air travel and the omnipresent automobile, provided both the
financial means and the transport modes for millions of people to travel.
Commercial enterprises created resorts, theme parks, golf courses and other
amusements, while simultaneously governments established more national
parks and protected areas. Collectively, these diverse attractions now comprise
a huge industry, reputedly the world’s largest, supplying tourist experiences on
a grand scale, virtually unlimited by distance. |
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