Society & Culture
Holidays: The Invention of Mass Tourism (Ep 2)
2022-08-15
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The birth of guide books, resorts, and the package holiday.
In the second episode in our holidays series Tom and Dominic drill down into the story of Thomas Cook, package tours, and nightmarish German spa treatments.
The third holidays episode, 'Sun, Sea and Sex', and the final episode in the series, 'Roman Holidays', will both be available to RIHC members on Monday 22nd August.
Show notes:
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves - Lucy Lethbridge
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