History of Travel and Tourism

By Natalie.Kozlowska

  • IATA

    The International Air Transport Association is an international trade body representing the interesting of more than 60 per cent of the worlds major airline. Its aim is to promote safe, regular and economic air travel.

  • Code of Conduct

    A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the responsibilities of or proper practices for an individual, party or organization. Related concepts include ethical codes and honor codes.

  • ABTA

    ABTA maintains a Code of Conduct which governs the relationship between Members and their customers. If their are member of ABTA they can call to the organisation and they can change the date of holiday so they can go there when the natural disaster finish.

  • 1963 The Boeing 727

    The Boeing 727 was first introduced in 1963, and has since became one of the most successful jetliners in the world, this had huge effect on the Travel&Tourism sector as many companies wanted to compete with it and many frequent flyers want to fly on it.

  • Lord thomson took the first steps towards creating Thomson Holidays

    The company was founded as part of the Thomson Travel Group in 1965 following the acquisition of four tour operators, Skytours, Riviera, Gaytours and Luxitours and the airline Britannia Airways by Roy Thomson.

  • FCO

    Fco is responsible for protecting and promoting UK interests world wide. It was created in 1968 by merging the foreign office and the commonwealth office.

  • Trade description act

    Act of parliament which prevents manufactures, retailers or service industry, providers from misleading consumers at what they are spending their money on.

  • 1969 The Development of Tourism act

    The act means if you are working in tourism you need to do certain thing for example promoting the development of tourism. <ahref='http://http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/tradingstandards/legislation/tourism.asp' >Find out more</a>

  • 1970 Introduction of the Boeing 747 ‘jumbo jet’

    The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft and was the first wide-body ever produced.

  • ATOL

    Air Travel Organisers' Licensing is a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority scheme to protect people who have purchased package holidays e.g. Thomson or Thomas Cook and flights from a member tour operator.

  • CAA

    The Civil Aviation Authority is the statutory corporation which oversees and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the United Kingdom. Its an international business in the Public Sector,

  • Unfair contract terms act

    The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. It protects consumers against unfair standard terms in contacts they make with travellers.

  • Health and Safety act

    The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 , also referred to as HSWA, HSW Act or HASAWA, is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain

  • 1974 The then number one UK tour operator Clarksonwent into liquidation

    The then number one UK tour operator Clarkson
    went into liquidation

  • AITO

    The Association of Independent Tour Operators. This independent tour operator members specialise in offering you an unrivalled collection of financially protected quality holidays to every corner of the globe.

  • 1976 Concorde came into service

    The Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. Concorde had a cruise speed of mach 2.04 and a cruise altitude of 60,000 feet (17,700 metres) with a delta wing configuration and an evolution of the afterburner equipped engines originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber. It is the first civil airliner to be equipped with an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system. Commercial fl

  • Consumer protection

    The Consumer Protection Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made important changes to the consumer law of the United Kingdom

  • Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet

    Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991.

  • EU package travel directive

    Its main aim is to protect people going on package holidays and provide compansation.

  • Channel Tunnel opened

    The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5-kilometre undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover

  • 1994 easyJet launched

    easyJet was established on the 9th of March, 1992, starting operations one month later with two wet-leased Boeing 737-200s that operated from London Luton Airport to Glasgow and Edinburgh.

  • 1994 National Lottery launched in the UK

    The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.
    It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery is regulated by the National Lottery Commission, and was established by the then prime minister John Major in 1994.

  • Disability Discrimination act

    The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) came into force on 2 December 1996. Its aims to end the discrimination that faces many people with disabilities. It gives people with rights in the areas of:
    - employment
    - education
    - access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private class and trasport services.

  • Employee rights act

    The Employment Rights Act 1996.
    - Every employee has to have a contract.
    - It confirms that you legally work there.
    - Its a guid on the terms and conditions + rights.
    - Paid time of work for public duties.

  • Data protection act

    The Data Protection Act 1998 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK.

  • 2003 Concorde taken out of service

    Concorde was retired in 2003 due to a general downturn in the aviation industry after the type's only crash in 2000, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and a decision by Airbus, the successor firm of Aérospatiale and BAC, to discontinue maintenance support.

  • Airbus A380 ‘super jumbo’ aircraft unveiled

    The new Airbus 380 "superjumbo" jet, unveiled today in Toulouse, France, will carry 555 passengers (when configured for three classes of seating). Its wingspan stretches nearly the length of a football field—50 feet (15 meters) wider than any commercial plane in the air today.

  • Thomas Cook and MyTravel, and TUI/Thomsonand First Choice, announced they were to merge

    Holiday group First Choice has agreed to merge with the owner of Thomson Holidays to create a travel company with £12bn of sales, as the consolidation sweeping the industry shows no sign of slowing.