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Discovery of Victoria Falls by Livingstone; Thomas Cook launches first foreign trips to Europe
1900
Sir Arthur Evans reveals his discoveries of an ancient civilisation at Knossos, Crete; the first long-distance motor bus service in Britain begins - London to Leeds takes two days
1903
Ski Club of Great Britain founded; Wright brothers are the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft
1909
Aussie Annette Kellerman arrested for indecent exposure after wearing a one-piece swimsuit
1911
Hiram Bingham is led by local people to the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu
1912
The first permanent Youth Hostel is established in Altena Castle in Germany
1919
Alcock and Brown become the first men to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop
1932
'Mass trespass' by 5,000 hikers who want more access to Peak District
1936
Gatwick opens as first modern airport, with built-in station, shops and covered gates
1946
Heathrow opens to civilian traffic; British South American Airways is first departure
1950
Britain's first all-inclusive package holiday to the Mediterranean departs from Gatwick
1952
TWA launches the world's first discount cabin on a commercial airline, called 'Tourist Class'; the next day, the first passenger-jet service begins, with a De Havilland Comet, on a BOAC flight to Johannesburg
1955
Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) is founded; Disneyland opens in California
1971
Pan Books publishes The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe - first guidebook for backpackers
1977
574 die in world's worst air disaster when two planes collide on the runway in Tenerife
1985
Society
Expeditions announces plans for tourist flights in space by 1992
1994
The first scheduled Eurostar passenger train departs from London for Paris
1995
Stelios Haji-Ioannou launches easyJet - the UK's first low-fare 'no-frills' airline
1997
Three guidebooks to Antarctica are published, along with one guidebook each to Mars and to the Moon
2000
The number of people using Heathrow in a single year exceeds Britain's population
2004
Ryanair's Michael O'Leary predicts air fares will fall by 10 per cent next year
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