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11. The Pioneers of the Spanish Travel Agency Business Before Mass Tourism

Author : Carlos Larrinaga

Published in: Companies and Entrepreneurs in the History of Spain

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter analyses the first Spanish travel agencies within the tourism system that was formed in the first decades of the twentieth century. If we understand modern tourism as an industry, travel agencies began to be an important part of it. Since the end of the nineteenth century, it had been foreign companies that had operated in the Spanish market, but since the beginning of the twentieth century we also noted the appearance of Spanish companies. In this chapter we will focus primarily on two, Viajes Marsans and Viajes Cafranga, analysing their evolution until the early 1950s, that is, the years before the mass tourism boom.

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Title: The Pioneers of the Spanish Travel Agency Business Before Mass Tourism
Author: Carlos Larrinaga
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Companies and Entrepreneurs in the History of Spain
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-61317-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-61318-1

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61318-1_11