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class. Now, let me introduce you about this course. This course discusses the
general knowledge of the transportation, its role to the tourism, planning and
policies. The content includes transportation systems, various features of tourism
related forms of transportation, modes and operations that includes concepts,
geographical and legal factors, analysis methods and infrastructure. Topics provide
students with essential knowledge of the intricate relationship existing between
travel, transport and tourism. So, let us get started and spark your learning!

SCP-TOPICS: PRELIM PERIOD TOPICS

Week 1 Introduction to Tourism Transport

Lesson Title Transportation History and Its Role to Tourism Industry
1. Examine the historical events pertinent to
transportation.
Learning Outcome(s) 2. Discuss the role of transportation in the tourism
industry.

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concepts.

Destination (main destination of a trip): The main destination of a tourism

trip is defined as the place visited that is central to the decision to take the trip.
(UNWTO)

Transport is a key enabler of tourism and plays a vital role in moving tourists
from their place of residence to their final destination and on to various attractions
(OECD, 2016)
 Tourism comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places
outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure,
business and other purposes." (UNWTO)
Tourism sector is the cluster of production units in different industries that
provide consumption goods and services demanded by visitors. Such industries
are called tourism industries because visitor acquisition represents such a
significant share of their supply that, in the absence of visitors, their
production of these would cease to exist in meaningful quantity. (UNWTO)
ESSENTIAL TOPIC
Overview of Transport History. The history of transportation commenced
from the human era and continued to change over a period of time. The first means
of transportation was the human foot. People used to walk huge distances to reach
places. The first progress made to this kind of transportation was adapting to
different surfaces.

Around 3500BC, people went on to domesticate animals like horses as a

means of transportation. Domesticating animals to use them as a means of
transporting. The first wheeled vehicles were used. As a means of transporting
small loads, wheels were attached to carts and chariots.
People knew that trees and logs float on water and so they dug out the middle
portion of logs to form a kind of seating. This facilitated people use water bodies as
a means of transport.
The first public demonstration of a lighter-than-air machine has taken place on
June 4, 1783, in Annonay, France, when Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, two
brothers who owned a paper mill, sent up an unmanned hot-air balloon. The hot air
balloon is the first thriving human-carrying flight technology. The first un-tethered
manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and
François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France,
(Crouch,2008)] in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. In 1852, the first
airship, fitted with a steam engine was flown by Henri Giffard from Paris. The
airship could only fly forward. The Wright Brothers made the first engine powered
flight in 'The Flyer' in 1903. It flew for 12 seconds and travelled 37 metres.
The first locomotive powered by a steam engine was built in 1804 by English
engineer Richard Trevithick, to haul trucks at an ironworks. The first passenger
railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England, which opened in
1825.

The transport industry has gained a essential place in the global network
system and is one of the most important components of the tourism infrastructure.
It now becomes easier for people to travel from one place to another because of the
different modes of transportation available.
 The earliest forms of transportation in the ancient times were animals on land
and sails on the sea. Travel development from the need to survive, to expand and
develop trade other countries, and the hunger to capture new lands and territories.
This was followed by the use of steams and electricity in the nineteenth century
followed by internal combustion engines.
Innovation continues as transport researchers are working to find new ways to
reduce costs and increase transport efficiency.