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The History Hour: The History of Modern Tourism

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The History of Modern Tourism

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The Icelandic firm that broke the mould in air travel, the Hippie trail and Euro Disney.

How a small Icelandic company broke the mould in air travel in the 1950s, tensions over a luxury resort on the Red Sea and how Disney came to Europe.

In a tourism special we look at the original low-cost transatlantic airline, based in Iceland,  the 1960s Hippie trail. Also the journey that led to the best selling Lonely Planet travel guides, political tensions caused by a luxury resort on the Red Sea and how Disney came to Europe.


(Photo: An Icelandic Airlines advertisement from May 1973, in New York's Fifth Avenue (US National Archives)

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