BROADCASTS.com

b'

Tourism is an international industry worth trillions of dollars, which creates hundreds of millions of jobs worldwide \\u2014 but that wasn\\u2019t always the case. In his book, \\u201cA History of Modern Tourism,\\u201d University of New England history professor Eric Zuelow walks us through the story of how we learned to love travel. From diplomacy, to new technologies like steam power, to a growing need for adventure and self-expression, tourism has become a global phenomenon with a huge impact on the places we love to visit and the environment.