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The History of Modern Tourism

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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Sun 2 Jul 2017 23:06GMT
成人快手 World Service except News Internet

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