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"Between 1950 and 2000, the overall global tourism industry experienced an average annual growth rate of 11 percent [...] The growth of the industry owes to the rise of ‘mass tourism,’ which has been made physically possible especially in the final quarter of the twentieth century by revolutions in transportation and communications technologies, especially the jet aircraft and, later, computer reservations systems." (p.78)
"The neoliberal restructuring of the world economy in the 1990s has decreased barriers to trade and financial flows, and has broadened world markets and opened geographical and political borders. These complex events have had significant impacts for tourism, including “visa-and passport-free excursions, extended accessibility to formerly restricted areas, unification of divided states, and the growth of international economic and trade alliances”. In the ways that changes in the world economy concern cross-border integration of markets within and among national and regional economies, these trends also describe the role and growth of international tourism as a trade-in-services export for countries. They reflect the growth of tourism and tourism-related companies, from small-scale local tour companies to transnational corporate interests, such as Mytravel (previously Airtours; covering Europe and North America, headquartered in the UK), First Choice (European, based in the UK), Kuoni (a Swiss company with holdings in Europe, Asia and the United States), Club Med (a French company with properties around the world), and Expedia (an Internet company based in the United States)." (p.80)
-Ginger Smith, "Tourism industry. The global landscape", chapitre 5 in Seductions of Place. Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes, Routledge, London and New York, 2005, 332 pages.
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-Carolyn Cartier & Alan A. Lew (eds.), Seductions of Place. Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes, Routledge, London and New York, 2005, 332 pages.
