ABSTRACT
A vacation is travel for reasons of recreation and leisure. Vacations in a modern sense developed in the nineteenth century with industrialisation. Economic systems emerged where work patterns gave rise to formal 'holiday' periods, people with sufficient income to meet a desire for vacation during these periods, transport systems to permit more people to travel within the constrained time, and infrastructures of attractions and accommodation at destinations serviced by the new transport. A spatial and social diffusion has occurred in which more places are explored by increasing numbers of people.
