Download or read book Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland written by Benjamin Colbert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.