Long before Moses led his followers to a promised land, people looked for aid & counsel in their travels. Helping people tour at home & abroad is today a multibillion dollar industry served by more than 200,000 travel agents who sell $60 billion worth of trips & collect more than $6 billion in commissions. Eric Friedheim, dean of the world's travel writers & member of the Travel Hall of Fame, traces for the first time the evolution of this colorful business, from antiquity through the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, the 19th ...
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Long before Moses led his followers to a promised land, people looked for aid & counsel in their travels. Helping people tour at home & abroad is today a multibillion dollar industry served by more than 200,000 travel agents who sell $60 billion worth of trips & collect more than $6 billion in commissions. Eric Friedheim, dean of the world's travel writers & member of the Travel Hall of Fame, traces for the first time the evolution of this colorful business, from antiquity through the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, the 19th-century advent of Thomas Cook to the development of American Express & other contemporary megabuck travel giants. Here is the dramatic story of the men & women who helped build the nation's $3 trillion tourist trade. Since man became mobile, those helping travelers assumed many guises, ranging from guides, expressmen, harbingers, escorts, immigration brokers, & frontier scouts to travel writers like Baedecker, Fielding, Frommer & Fodor. All are depicted together with the exploits of Wells & Fargo, whose stagecoaches penetrated the Western frontier, & Ward Foster, whose travel chain was the first to employ women. This book has wide interest to the travel trade, traveling public & those seeking travel jobs.
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