CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL TOURISM IN GREAT BRITAIN: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Abstract

Tourism as a form of leisure is especially sensitive to the goals set by the consumer. The incentives of the previous centuries have been preserved. Such types of tourism as educational, medical and cognitive are based on them. Nowadays mountain climbing, skiing, ice skating, bicycles and cars, travelling with environmental and recreational purposes are added to them. At the same time, the socio-cultural motivation of travelling in modern era turned out to be dominant.