ABSTRACT
The term ‘tourism’ was, of course, coined essentially to describe the phenomenon of the much larger number of visitors that improved methods of transportation, increasing wealth, literacy and the availability of travel information were generating. Inevitably this set in train the overcrowding, environmental damage, vulgarity and other downside phenomena associated with tourism and which I discuss later in this chapter. Prior to this though, there had been commentators who were doubtful about the virtue of travel, both from the point of view of the traveller and of the destination.
