Unit 2 The History of Modern Tourism(1)

In the late eighteenth century, sea water gained a reputation for its medicinal properties and as a result many British coastal fishing villages were transformed into fashionable resorts. Brighton and Weymouth both became popular with genteel holidaymakers after George III paid them a visit to try and cure the fits of madness from which he suffered.
The earliest organisation of anything that we would recognise today as tourism started in the mid-nineteenth century. It is common to consider 1841 as the beginning of modern tourism when Thomas Cook from England organised an excursion for 570 members of the South Midlands Temperance Association from Leicester to Loughborough. Methodist missionary Henry Lunn pioneered the skiing holiday just a few years later.