The Rise Of American Tourism Industry In Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Century

The modern tourism industry started from Europe in Mid-nineteenth century. Whilealong with the development of economy in late19thcentury, American tourism industry hadmatched with and beyond European’s quickly. This paper studies the historical society andeconomy condition with a view of modern tourism, to prove that the modern tourism industryof America rised in late19thand early20thcentury, with finding evidences fitting the situationof the starting.This paper based on historical evidence method, using correlation theories of tourismresearch. Combine historical evidences with logical reasoning while analyzing. Use numbersof historical evidences to explain the reasons, the symbols of American tourism industry’sstarting. In addition, the paper also analyzed the feature of the tourism activities and tourismindustry itself during the time. Besides what the U.S. government did that benefited thetourism industry was explained with simple main points, too. The paper purposes on enrichingthe research of American tourism industry in China, as well as offering advices to thedeveloping of Chinese tourism industry.The part of introduction reviewed researches about American tourism in late19thandearly20thcentury. It also confirms the research direction and important problems to be solved,the research approach, the relevant methods and theory.The text discussed the reason of American tourism industry’s starting in terms of society,economy and environment. Comparatively analyzes the historical events among tourismcompanies, travel products, type of travel, tourist literature, tourism financial and so on, inorder to abstract the symbols in the starting of American tourism industry. By analyzing thereasons and symbols, the paper discusses the feature of American tourism industry’s starting,as well.The last part is the conclusion, which summarizes the paper and gives several advices tothe Chinese tourism industry which is also developing the social transformation right now.This paper tries to reappears the history and make contribution to this research field.