The History of Modern Tourism
The Icelandic firm that broke the mould in air travel, the Hippie trail and Euro Disney.
The History Hour · BBC World Service
July 2, 201750m 9s
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Show Notes
In a tourism special we look at the original low-cost transatlantic airline, based in Iceland, the 1960s Hippie trail. Also the journey that led to the best selling Lonely Planet travel guides, political tensions caused by a luxury resort on the Red Sea and how Disney came to Europe.
(Photo: An Icelandic Airlines advertisement from May 1973, in New York's Fifth Avenue (US National Archives)