This heavily illustrated book looks at past trends and current practices in the tourist industry. Considering conveyances from Greyhound buses to the Queen Mary, accommodations from youth hostels to Hilton Hotels, travelers from camera-laden Japanese tourists to housewives in hula skirts, and destinations from the Great Pyramids to the Eiffel Tower, it thoughtfully and amusingly examines various travel fads. Captioned vintage photographs, classic postcards, and still-beautiful vistas accompany the appropriately trilingual English, German, and French text, while sidebars offer tidbits about everything from passport stamps to the basics of camping.