Leisure Travel

Leisure travel was, in a sense, a British invention. This was [mainly:mostly] due to economic and social factors; Britain was the first country to become fully industrialized and industrial [society:anxiety] offered [growing:greater] numbers of people time for leisure. This, coupled with improvements in transport, especially the railways, meant that large numbers of people could get to holiday resorts in a very short time. Modern mass tourism of a sort we can easily recognize today began in 1841 when Thomas Cook [organized:recognized] the first [package:packet] tour, in which everything was included in the [cost:price] - travel, hotel and entertainment.