The Global Industry of Tourism
When was the last time you took a vacation and traveled to a far away destination? Just a century ago, such travel was simply not within the reach of many. Most people spent their entire life just a few hundred miles from their birthplace. Tourism travel was only for the rich and the few adventurous individuals who dared to venture to different parts of the globe. However, after the industrial revolution and the spread of globalization as well as the forward leap in technology that has been experienced in both past and present centuries, there has been a rapidly expanding global tourism industry and it is estimated that by the year 2020, 1.6 billion people will be traveling globally.
