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The Thomas Cook Archive for the Study of Tourism in North Africa and the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

F. Robert Hunter
F. Robert Hunter*
Affiliation:
Indiana State University
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As one of the greatest and fastest-growing industries of our time, one with significant impacts upon societies and economies almost everywhere, tourism (mass travel for pleasure and recreation) merits serious historical study. In the Middle East and North Africa, the turning point in travel for trade, exploration, adventure, and religious inspiration to travel primarily for leisure occurred in Egypt and Syria/Palestine during the 1880s. Tourism, however, is not only intrinsically important. Its origins and development also shed light upon the great themes of Middle East history: (1) modernization (the introduction of Western techniques, methods and materials), and (2) colonial expansion and empire.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , Winter 2003 , pp. 157 - 164
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2003

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References

1 I wish to thank Joan M. Hunter, who assisted in the research for this article, and Indiana State University, which provided funding for my research.

2 On this general topic, see Boorstin, Daniel J., The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (New York: Atheneum, 1978), pp. 77–117.Google Scholar

3 I would like to thank Thomas Cook UK Ltd for allowing me to use its archive. I am particularly indebted to Mr. Paul Smith, Company Archivist, who went beyond the call of duty to assist me and my wife in obtaining archival materials and other pertinent information.

4 Withey, Lynne, Grand Tours and Cook’s Tours. A History of Leisure Travel. 1750 to 1915 (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997), p. 179.Google Scholar

5 This and the information that follows was obtained in an interview with Smith, Paul Mr., Company Archivist, on May 30, 2002.Google Scholar

6 Gracie A. Faye, Edfou, February 27,1897 in Guardbook 13 Nile Steamers.

7 “Thomas Cook and Son Robbery from Encampment outside Jerusalem 1869,” Foreign Office Papers 226/168, Public Record Office, London (Kew).

8 Steevens, G.W., Egypt in 1898 (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898), p. 272 in Box 8.Google Scholar

9 Sir George Newnes, reprint from article in “Strand Magazine,” in Blackbox 8 Egypt J. M. Cook Correspondence 1880s-1890s.