Pack your bags and we're leaving: how we've traveled in these years
During the roman pax (27 BC-180) the road network ran 160,000km, connecting almost all corners of the empire and had inns every 15 kilometers.
The first travel guide in history was Book V of the Codex Calixtinus, written in 1160 by the French Benedictine monk Aymeric Picaud around the figure of Apostle James, that gave practical advice to pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago.
In 1828, the German karl baedeker published the first travel book of what would be the Baedeker guides collection. So practical they were used in World War II by German pilots to pinpoint the places where they should drop their bombs. In 1943, the bombing of Leipzig destroyed the publishing house.
Did you know that the first travel guide in history was written in the year 1160?
The oldest hotels in the world (and still in operation) are: Houshi Ryokan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan (718) ; Zum Roten Baren, Germany (1120) ; The Old Bell, Berkshire, UK (1135) ; Angel & Royal, Malmesbury, UK (1203) ; The Old Bell Hotel, Wiltshire, United Kingdom (1220) ; Orso Grigio, Innichen, Italy (1303) ; Hotel Pilgrimhaus, Soest, Germany (1304) ; hotel Interlaken, Switzerland (1323) ; Blue Gans, Salzburg, Austria (1350) ; Old Hall Hotel, United Kingdom ( 1573 , although they say that 3,000 years ago it already housed Celtic travelers); and Seaside Inn & Cottages, Maine, United States (1756).
And in Spain: Hostal Parador Dos Reis Católicos, Santiago de Compostela (1482) ; Posada del Peine in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, today part of Petit Palace (1610) ; Gran Hotel La Perla, Pamplona (1881) ; hotel Spain, Barcelona (1888) ; Ritz in Madrid – today part of the Mandarin Oriental group – and Alhambra Palace in Granada (1910) ; The Westin Palace, Madrid, and Maria Cristina of San Sebastian (1912) ; and Alfonso XIII of Seville (1928).
The longest train in history is the so-called Mauritanian Iron Train. It was inaugurated in 1963, it measures 2.5 kilometers and is made up of up to 200 wagons. The The Ghan is 1.1 kilometers long, It carries 44 wagons and connects the more than 3,000 kilometers between Darwin and Adelaide, in Australia. Nevertheless, the longest train journey in the world is the Trans-Siberian, with 9,289 km between Moscow and Vladivostok, on the Russian coast of the Sea of Japan.
400 dollars (about 10,000 euros today) Pay in 1914 the millionaire Abram C Phell by fly 23 minutes by seaplane between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, in what is considered the first commercial voyage in history.
The The first tourist flight was in 1917, between London and Paris, aboard an adapted bomber. In it they traveled 11 passengers and the journey lasted 2 hours and half.
345 passengers carried the Dutch airline KLM in 1920. It was the first airline in the world. Iberia's first trip took place on December 14, 1927 from Barcelona to Madrid. It had wicker seats, capacity for 10 passengers, 2 crew members and reached a top speed of 205 km/h.
280km/h was the cruise speed of the Boeing 247, the first modern passenger aircraft, in 1933.
The first flight across the Pacific (from San Francisco to Manila) was held in 1935 and it lasted a week.
In 1970 entered service on Boeing 747. operated by Panam, made the journey between New York and London.
The first commercial trip in history cost 400 dollars (about 10,000 today)
800 passengers transported the A-380, the largest commercial aircraft in the world, in 2005.
Currently working in the world 17,678 airports. There are only 5 countries that do not have an airport, because its extension is too small and they do not fit: Monaco, The Vatican, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein.
They are operated by around 2,000 airlines. The IATA it encompasses 290 member partners and controls 82 percent of world traffic.
The origin of safaris we found it in the second half of the s. XIX, when Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston Churchill, organized the first African hunt in luxury and comfort plan. was spent £70,000.
In 2019, Spain received 83.7 million international travelers –with an expense of 92,278 million euros, 2.82% more than the previous year–, which placed us in the second position in the world ranking, behind France and ahead of the United States, China and Italy.
The most visited cities in the world were, in this order: Hong Kong, Bangkok, London, Macau, Singapore, Paris, Dubai and New York.
Barcelona is the eighth most visited city in Europe and number 33 worldwide. Madrid occupies the 15th continental position and the 47th overall.
Shanghai is the city with the most income from tourism (with 32,050 million euros), followed by Paris (with 31,789 million euros), Beijing (29,643 million euros), Macau, Orlando and New York (2018 data).
According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), 1,461 million people traveled the world in 2019.
In January and February 2020, Spain received 8.56 million international tourists, 1.1% more than the previous year. The main issuing market continues to be the United Kingdom.
Our trips in data