Guy Stagg

How the travel industry convinced us we needed holidays

They had to persuade us that going abroad was an adventure rather than an inconvenience, as Lucy Lethbridge explains in her survey of British tourism from the Grand Tour onwards

Victorian tourists on the Mer de Glace glacier in the French Alps. [Alamy]
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  • Tourists: Why The British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

    Lucy Lethbridge

    Bloomsbury, pp. 368, £20

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