Travel and Tourism Thomas Weiss and Brandon Dupont Contents Introduction ..................................................................................... 1480 Defining and Measuring Tourism ........................................................... 1481 Research on the Economic History of Tourism ................................................ 1482 An Overview of the Economic History of Tourism ........................................ 1484 The Demand for Tourism ....................................................................... 1484 Methodological Approaches ................................................................ 1485 Elasticity Estimates ......................................................................... 1487 The Impact of Tourism on Economic Growth ................................................. 1489 The Economic History of Seaside Resorts ..................................................... 1492 The Shift from British to Spanish Seaside Resorts ........................................ 1496 Economic History of Tourism in the United States ............................................ 1499 Data Sets Available ......................................................................... 1503 Implications of These Data ................................................................. 1504 Explaining the Rise of Domestic Tourism ................................................. 1505 History of Tourism in Hawaii ............................................................... 1506 Conclusion ...................................................................................... 1512 Cross-References ............................................................................... 1513 References ...................................................................................... 1513 Abstract Travel and tourism, once activities that were open only to the elite, have become increasingly accessible to many more people. As a result, tourism is now an important economic activity worldwide. In this chapter, we discuss the T. Weiss (*) University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA e-mail: t-weiss@ku.edu B. Dupont Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA e-mail: Brandon.Dupont@wwu.edu © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 C. Diebolt, M. Haupert (eds.), Handbook of Cliometrics, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00181-0_74 1479