Tourism through the Ages - Tourism: Principles, Practices, Philosophies - page 46

for their donkeys and camels. These people travel in groups for mutual assistance and
defense.

776 Greeks begin travels to the Olympic Games. Subsequently, the games are held every four years.

C . E .
500 - 1450

During Europe s Middle Ages, a royal party in unfamiliar territory sends out a harbinger to

scout the best route, find accommodations and food, then return to the group as a guide.

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1605 The hackney coach is introduced in London.

1801 Richard Trevithick, in England, perfects a steam locomotive capable of pulling heavy railcars.

1815 John L. McAdam and Thomas Telford, Britishers, invent all-weather roads, subsequently with

a bituminous top.

1822 Robert Smart of Bristol, England, starts booking passengers on steamships sailing to Ireland.

1826 - 1840 Railroads begin service in the United States, first hauling minerals such as coal and, later,

passengers.

1829 The Tremont House opens in Boston, the first ''modern'' hotel.

1830 The first passengers are carried by rail in England.

1838 Stendhal, the pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle of France, writes M emoires d ' un touriste,

believed to be the first disseminated printed use of the French word tourist.

1841 Thomas Cook organizes a special excursion train carrying 570 passengers from Leicester to

Loughborough, England, a trip of 12 miles.

1850 Thomas Bennett, secretary to the British consul general in Oslo, Norway, sets up a '' trip

organizer '' business as a sideline. He provides individual pleasure travel itineraries and other

services.

1873 The American Express Company is created by joining the original American Express

Company formed in 1850 with the Wells Fargo Company, founded in 1852.

1902 The American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded in Chicago.

1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight at Kitty

Hawk, North Carolina.

1908 Henry Ford introduces the famous Model T automobile.

1918 Deutsche Lufthansa provides the first scheduled air passenger service from Berlin to Leipzig

and Weimar.

1920 The U.S. road system begins great improvement.

1926 Varney Airlines and Western Airlines become the first airlines in the United States.

1927 Charles A. Lindbergh flies solo from New York to Paris nonstop.

1927 Charles A. Levine becomes the first transatlantic passenger, flying from New York to within

118 miles of Berlin, his destination, because of a forced landing.

1927 Pan American Airways ies first international commercial mail flight from Key West, Florida,

to Havana, Cuba.

1928 Pan Am ies rst passenger flight on the same route.

1931 The American Society of Steamship Agents is founded in New York.

1936 The Air Transport Association (ATA) is formed in Chicago.

1939 Frank Whittle, an Englishman, develops the first jet engine capable of powering a full-size

airplane.

1944 The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) is founded from the American Society of

Steamship Agents.

1945 End of World War II and the beginning of the era of mass tourism.

1951 Founding of Paci c Asia Travel Association (PATA) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

1952 The U.S. Congress creates the National System of Interstate Highways.

1954 Great Britain produces the Comet, the first passenger jet plane.

1958 The Boeing Commercial Airplane Company produces the B-707, the first commercial jet

plane built in the United States.