scholarly journals Overseas Travel And Tourism ‐ Quarter 2 2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 789 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-303
Keyword(s):  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Overseas Travel

Steam Shipping and the Beginnings of Overseas Tourism: British Travel to North Western Europe, 1820-1850

2011 ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
John Armstrong ◽  
David M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Overseas Travel ◽  
Railway System ◽  
The Times ◽  
North Western

This chapter, like the two that precede it, quashes the myth that the recreational travel and tourism industry began with Thomas Cook and the railway system, pointing instead to the roots developed by the steamboat. It explores the growth of British overseas travel through the origins of commercial steamboat services on the Clyde to the first Dover-Calais route. It pays particular attention to the formation of the General Steam Navigation Company in 1824. It also offers a thorough analysis of overseas excursion advertisements in The Times between 1825 and 1850. It concludes that by the end of the 1840s specialist agencies for overseas travellers had come into existence, alongside other frameworks for tourism that developed out of steamboat technology - pre-dating the mid-century rail-led tourism boom by several years.

Would you be more satisfied with your life if you travel more frequently?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Chu Chen ◽  
Sui-Wen (Sharon) Zou ◽  
James F. Petrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Life Domain ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Personal Importance

This research intends to examine whether frequent travelers are more satisfied with their life as well as why these individuals travel more frequently than others. Derived from a sample of 500 Taiwanese respondents, the study results show that respondents attaching personal importance to tourism are more likely to gather travel-relevant information, resulting in more frequent travels. It is also found that frequent travelers are more satisfied with their life. These findings suggest that travel and tourism can be an important life domain affecting how people evaluate their overall quality of life.

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