ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the development of travel to consume the scenic attractions of the British Isles, and explores relationships between freedom of movement, social mobility and power. It outlines the historical development of transport that facilitated the growth of domestic tourism, and discusses the various ways in which the places observed along the way have been represented, communicated and reproduced. Mobility is responsible for altering how people experience the modern world, changing both their forms of subjectivity and sociability and their aesthetic appreciation of nature, landscapes, townscapes and other societies. Recent academic literature has given considerable emphasis to the processes through which everyday working places are transformed into alluring landscapes of leisure and tourism. The journey can be regarded not simply as a means to an end but as a source of pleasure derived from a sense of freedom through travel.
