{"id":728,"date":"2013-06-12T22:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cruisejobfinder.com\/members\/?page_id=728"},"modified":"2014-01-17T04:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T04:45:46","slug":"outlook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisejobfinder.com\/members\/tour-guide\/outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth of the Tour Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tour industry itself is both old and new. The well-to-do have always been able to travel to see and experience interesting buildings, works of art, cultures, languages, cuisines, and there have always been guides there when they arrived to show them the sights. Then, with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the new middle class \u2013 factory owners, merchants, traders, attorneys, those who contributed to the new economy at a level different and above those who actually created the products \u2013 had both money and leisure time for travel. And the tourism industry was created. <\/p>\n

It was not until the late 1940s, after World War II, that tourism, on the large scale seen today, began to grow. Mass tourism required the development of a transportation infrastructure, trains, ships, highways, and most recently, airplanes, capable of moving large numbers of people to places far away. With that support in place, travel has experienced year-over-year growth, providing expanded career opportunities in its related industries, contributing an estimated 5% to the worldwide gross domestic product (UN World Trade Organization). <\/p>\n

Travel has created opportunities for employment in a variety of service-oriented industries with ties to tourism:<\/p>\n