Travel and Tourism Sector

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TASK 1 1.1 Explain key historic developments in the travel and tourism sector that affected development of United Kingdom as a major generator of Tourism. United Kingdom is a well-known country by all over the world because of its unique culture and the history. Many countries were ruled by the English people for a long time. Because of this reason the United Kingdom is very popular among the overseas people. After the world war 2 there are major developments in many industries such as banking, government industries and etc… the service giving industries such as Travel and Tourism, hospitality, medical, health and beauty are becoming more and more popular among the people. Not like earlier people have money to spend and also they have time to travel. Also the aviation industry giving the strong service thru modern technology which is encouraging to people to travel more and more. When we consider about the British tourism, it is started with the pilgrimage. Traveling to holy place and worshiping the god is relief the pain and pressure of the people. To travel to other countries like Italy, Spain or United States these people need a cheap transport media. So they convert all war ships and wine ships to the commercial ships to transport purpose. These ships are still heading to the cities like Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Also after the World War 2 during sixteenth century the term called “Grand Tour” become most popular among the British people. To experience the different culture and life style of the other European cities and their life style most of the English parents sent their children to the grand tour. They believe that the observing of the other European cities helps their children to gain more education. Even today most of the British would love to travel middle east even far east as a result of the Grand Tour. In eighteenth century British people

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