Flight to the Sun: The Story of the Holiday Revolution

by Roger Bray and Vladimir Raitz

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The story of mass tourism is one of the most remarkable of the 20th century. The authors briefly cover early tourism (Cook's coach trips to Blackpool, Henry Lunn's elite skiing parties of the 1890s), then tell how it all exploded after World War II. A handful of entrepreneurs used old warplanes to take ration-weary Britons to exotic European beaches, and the package holiday was born. Raitz's chapters chart the rise and downfall of his company, Horizon Holidays. Bray's chapters tell the history of the industry as a whole.
  • ISBN10 0826451659
  • ISBN13 9780826451651
  • Publish Date 31 December 2000 (first published 7 November 2000)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Out of Print 19 March 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English