The Victorian and Edwardian Tourist will be the seventh title in John Hannavy's 'Victorian and Edwardian' series for Shire. The book will explore the development of tourism, and the photography which was created to support it from 1840 to 1910. There is some uncertainty over just when the word ‘tour’ assumed its modern meaning, and when the words ‘tourist’ and ‘tourism’ were first used. Certainly uses of the word ‘tour’ to describe a circular journey – ie ending up back where one started – can be traced back as far as the mid-17th century, but the words ‘tourism’ and ‘tourist’ probably did not start to enter general usage until a century and a half later – ‘tourist’ around 1800, and ‘tourism’ a decade or so later. The first package tour – organised by Thomas Cook – took place in the same decade as the invention of a practical photographic process, so the two developed together, and were nurtured by each other. The story of organised tourism's first seventy years is told through a rich collection of photographs, postcards and artifacts, illuminated by the personal accounts and diaries of early tourists. The Victorian and Edwardian Tourist will be published by Shire in autumn 2012.

A possible cover is illustrated above, and a possible layout for the book is shown below..