Historian, novelist and walks guide, Ian Porter, explored how technological and social changes transformed travel.
Thomas Cook saw the demand for cheaper travel. His family business worked with scheduled charter airlines resulting in all-inclusive tours. In 1928, the family business was sold to Compagnie Internationale des wagons-Lits et de Grandes Express Européennes. This company operated the Orient Express.
Steamships now plied seas around the world. No longer was sailing from England a dangerous, costly endeavour. Air ships were thought to be the future until the Hindenburg crash.
The advent of WWII saw an end to the golden age of travel.