...tourism was invented thanks to the railway?
Is It True That...? - The year 2026

...tourism was invented thanks to the railway? ()

A New Way of Demystifying History
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Did tourism originate with the railway? Pilgrimages were important precursors – but it was romantic notions of nature and the expansion of infrastructure that created the necessary conditions. Politics and media staging ultimately shaped mass travel as we know it: tourism arises when longing finds structure.