What started travel?

Thomas Cook is a pioneer of modern tourism.

Thomas Cook is the founder of modern tourism, known as the "father of modern tourism". He organized the world's first round-the-world travel group, compiled and published the world's first travel guide for group tourists-Liverpool Guide, and creatively launched the earliest voucher with the embryonic form of traveler's checks. Cook organized a self-help tour in Europe to provide travel assistance and hotel accommodation services for self-help tourists. /kloc-In the middle of the 9th century, Thomas Cook founded the world's first travel agency, Thomas Cook Travel Agency, which marked the birth of modern tourism and made tourism a more extensive economic activity in the world.

Industrialization has prompted people's life center to shift from rural areas to cities, and a large number of rural people have flowed into cities and towns. The value of the city has become the value of the whole society, the lifestyle of the city has been imitated by the whole society, and modern civilization has taken place in the city.

However, the intense labor pressure of industrialization and the cramped living environment of urbanization remind people of rural life and look forward to being close to nature, which greatly stimulates and strengthens people's motivation to return to peace and nature.

At the same time, industrialization has also created more social wealth, and production has exceeded the basic needs of maintaining people's survival, so that people gradually have the financial resources to travel.

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From 65438 to 0845, Thomas Cook officially established the world's first travel agency-Thomas Cook Travel Agency, which became the beginning of travel agency business.

On August 4th, 1845, the travel agency organized a leisure tour from Leicester to Liverpool for the first time, with 350 participants.

Cook himself personally inspected the tourist routes in advance, determined the tourist attractions along the way, and agreed with the innkeepers around the country on the accommodation and other matters of passengers.

After I came back, I compiled and published the Guide to Liverpool and sent it to tourists, which became an early travel guide.