ABSTRACT
To meet the growing demand for private travel, governments had to provide appropriate infrastructure. Up to the mid-1960s this was mainly a question of building enough of it. Travel by car and by air expanded rapidly. The report continued:
After having concentrated on expanding tourism, national tourism policymakers now had to contend with congested urban centres and major roads, particularly during peak periods. The fact that travel was becoming within the reach of more and more people pushed up demand for medium-grade hotels and for supplementary forms of accommodation. Governments had to inject a massive amount of public funds to compensate for the private sector’s initial lack of interest in this type of accommodation. As for higher-grade hotels, the shortage of trained hotel staff obliged governments to set up schemes to train them.
