The growth of modern tourism IntroductionThis essay aims to highlight the main political, economic, social and technological factors that have contributed to the growth of modern tourism from 1945 to the present. We will also aim to show which of these was the most important in helping and why. Definition of tourism"The derivation of the word "tourism" originates from a combination of the Latin torna and the Greek tornos, meaning lathe or circle. In modern English, with the suffix -ism (an action or process), the meaning of the word tourism becomes the action of movement in a circle. We can imagine a round trip from this meaning: one leaves home for a particular destination, and then returns home again in the same way, adding the suffix -IST (a person who performs an action), we can derive the word "tourist", the person who undertakes such a trip. Although the general meaning of the word tourism is known to all, precisely defining tourism is not an easy task. Many scholars have tried to define it, but the meaning has changed depending on the times, and different people use the word differently, however, to acquire comparable statistical data and to carry out research on tourism as a field of study, an universal standard definition. Therefore, the International Conference on Travel and Tourism Statistics, sponsored by the World Tourism Organization and Tourism Canada, was held in Ottawa in June 1991. This conference recommended that the definition of tourism be as follows: The activities of a person who travels to a place outside his usual environment for less than a specified period of time and whose principal purpose of the trip is other than the exercise of a paid activity within the place visited" (www2.hawaii.edu)Political FactorsAfter the end of World War II in In 1945, people began to be more open-minded and wanted to travel. Soldiers wanted to return to the parts of the world that they had seen during the war. People became more curious about what was happening in the world and this began the great expansion of World War II tourism, people were not afraid to move from one country to another, although in the beginning it would have been very expensive and only the rich could afford it. Government policy influences how things are run under its control, and it was not until 1969 that the British government introduced the "Development of Tourism Act". ", this act "established a new framework for public sector tourism, which took into account the growing importance of the sector to the British economy.