EVOLUTION AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM (3rd Epoch)

3. Third Epoch (Period After Second World War)
    After second world war, the standard of living of the working and middle people class has been raised. Tourism became a need in the countries where tourism had been practically unknown. Enormous expansion of tourism has been seen primarily in the advance & industrial countries, where travel becames a part of the life style. Third pahse of tourism and development however summarized the following points:

a) Introduction of Motor Car/ Bus/ Coach: The provision of luxury motor cars, buses, coaches has a significant on accessing the tourism activities through transportation. The boom in tourist movements in twenty century & twenty first century linked to the introduced of luxury coaches & private motor cars.

b) Introduction of Paid holiday & Mass tourism: The concept of mass tourism emerged along with the introduction of paid holidays. During the last quarter of 19th century, cheap holidays with pay for working class people had been developed, through the paid holiday was very largely of English origin, developed the inter-wars. The concept really got underway, when ILO adopted it at their first convention.

c) Air Transportation:  Introduction of civil aviation has brought a revolutionary changes in the history of travel after 1950's, when aircrafts were introduced for the commercial purpose carrying a mass of people at a time,  with tremendous increase in speed, safety & comfort. It also gave access to the package holiday, which subsequently became a model for most of the present tourism.


d) Introduction of Jet/ Jumbo Jets: The most dramatic change in mass tourism/ travel to its present level was the introduction of jet in the year 1958. This mode of travel introduced an entirely new medium of speed, comfort & efficiency & maximum carrying capacity.

e) Introduction of Inclusive Tour: It is an another interesting idea developed during this period. In this type of tour, all relevant costs are added up and sold in a package. The system of package tour is also responsible for mass tourism.

f) Introduction of IT: The latest achivement int the field of tourism in 21st century is the application of information technology for various promotion of any place of product via internet. One can easily operate a tour or any reservation can be made from one point to the next point of the world through Internet or Central Reservation System (CRS). Any information can be collected within a single hour. This indicates that the globalization is accessing speed of travel and tourism with the place of technology.