Tourism were not until the early twentieth century, but a luxury for the rich and senior Mehrajat and adventurous, and used to take a trip on mostly every several weeks or months to move from one continent to the other, and rarely between countries per continent.
With the beginning of the twentieth century and the completion of the Orient Express, evolved and tourism has also become accessible to the affluent and lovers knowledgeable, moving from country to country in the European continent, so that «THOMAS COOK» invented the traveler's checks to be used in the first issue by travelers ride the Orient Express, and then uncle used around the world for tourists Kachikat General and then as a global payment, and the development of maritime transport ships make huge cross oceans and transported Suaha, consider their journey in the coming and going with a short stop in the port of destination, Tourism interesting and important.
After the First World War, the laws began to work in the country has created a European annual holidays, which allowed for the middle classes in addition to the categories of affordable tourism within the region with a view to one annual vacation during the summer seasons.
The pilgrimage and summer are the tourism only known to our region until the mid-twentieth century, as it used to Ghassanian workers Romans in the Levant and Manathira workers Persians in Iraq, the summer where, and taken them princes Arabs then Caliphs in early Islam, as it was for each of them summer retreat and Machta, and the most famous Rusafa on the Euphrates, Balqa and regions Ghota Palmyra and Damascus.
Was interesting Syrians great beautifying their villages and improved, making it the resorts Levantine aspiration attention vacationers, Votaha Arab brothers prosperous, with families of their warm, such as Iraq and the Gulf countries such as Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, with a view to the summer and escape from a free country in the summer, some of them wire road car or rail between Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
Syria was a conduit for pilgrims coming from the east and north Asia and Turkey, and flying to Mecca or to Jerusalem, where they were staying in Damascus period in the coming and going, they sell trade brought with them from their country to be able to complete their march, was the word «Sham Sharif» calling on Damascus than most these Muslim pilgrims, who visit Atadoha and considered her more of a tradition, but are necessary to complete the pilgrimage, and the importance of the visit «to Sham Sharif» after the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and then visit Jerusalem.
After World War II, and the development of the aviation industry that has become her country's remote accessible and close to access, with the development of the achievements of the working classes and the legislation of modern and increased duration of annual holidays in the country's industrial, increased from the beginning of the sixties the importance of tourism, especially after it emerged into existence and mass transit aircraft «Chartres» Mthowdh prices, which encouraged residents of northern Europe on tourism and the transition to the warm beaches of the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands and otherwise, to spend their holidays during the annual season of bitter cold in their country.
Thus distributed holidays throughout the year, rather than confined to the summer months for the European country, which is active creation of tourist complexes and the emergence of major resorts
on the shores of the Mediterranean and the Caribbean
