Travel Industry

One way to examine the start of travel as an industry is to look at the history and beginnings of the oldest and still existent travel agency, Thomas Cook & Son. Thomas Cook, a Baptist missionary, was born in 1808. He was a member of the Temperance Society and traveled the countryside on foot or by horse preaching against the evils of drink. In 1841 he was helping to plan the society's meeting which was to be held in Loughborough, England ten miles from its base in Leicester. He had heard of Richard Trevithick's steam-carriages and railways and was inspired to actually market the society's meeting as a "convention," rent the new-fangled trains from the Midland Railways, print and pass out advertising for the trip, and provide a snack and music for the ride. So on July 5, 1841, 570 happy temperance supporters rode in nine open steam carriages on the first arranged tour

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840s as an express mail service, but it branched out into the fields of transport and international finance so that by the 1890s it was operating shipping concerns in England, France, and Germany. The company introduced the Traveler's Check in 1891 and also sold tickets to European railroads and to transatlantic passenger steamships. It offered European tours in the early part of this century and in 1915 established its first Travel Department in new York to coordinate all the services it now offered customers (Lizon 11). The event that most transformed travel wa the invention of the automobile and the mass-production of this new creation by Henry Ford. People had been excited by the advent of the railroad, but they were much more excited by the invention of a two-seated machine that would allow them to explore the world on their own. Americans could now drive from coast to coast. In the 1920s, the travel industry responded with the creation of the independent travel agent. People were traveling more by car and otherwise and had a need for travel services. Enterprising agents began offering professional travel advice and services across the country, and "Mom and Pop" travel agencies were born. These were agencies that we
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