What is Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism?

Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism charts the development of one of the world's largest and most culturally significant industries, presenting a multi-national journey through well-known, little-known and far-flung destinations unlocked for the average traveller between c.1850 and the 1980s.

The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of European and American working class tourism, offering a unique insight into the ways people travelled and destinations they visited as revealed through travel journals, leaflets, brochures, guidebooks, ephemera and promotional tourism films.

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