ABSTRACT
By reflecting on past events, we can gain a better understanding how we have become what we are. Using the tourism terminology, we can say that it is the way for better understanding of the essence of tourism movements and tourism industry. As an area of human activity, tourism has a history extending back to the early eighteenth century. So is the case with tourism knowledge or tourism theory. In this context this chapter covers the period from the initial stages of scientific research on tourism until the end of the twentieth century. Specifically the purpose of this chapter is to provide a series of reflections on aspects of the development of tourism knowledge in order not to avoid or forget the importance of any development stages the tourism theory was going through.
