ABSTRACT
Writing in the 1940s, Pimlott looked backwards to comment:
There have been few important changes [to holiday taking] during the present century, which could not have been foreseen by a careful observer in 1900. The main trends were settled. Annual holidays were spreading from the middle class to the better-paid manual workers… The major seaside resorts of today were firmly established … The motorcar was ceasing to be a joke and a nuisance, and the bicycle had reopened the countryside to the people from the towns. If the general standard of life continued to rise, all the ingredients were present for a vast expansion in the number of holidaymakers.
(Pimlott, 1947, p. 212)