Jordan's Tourism Industry Development from Traditional Era to the Digital Age

Abstract

This study shows tourism tools that have been used by human beings and their prophets and messengers. In the context of accomplishing the prophets and messengers’ missions to human races, the reason of these missions was mainly a religious type of tourism that utilizing the other types of tourism such as; cultural, adventure, desert, educational, heritage, eco-tourism and humanitarian. This premise of the prior of pre- industrial original age (i.e. First age) of tourism history is to be marketed and promoted throughout the entire life that contributes today to knowledge of mankind and the tourism industry as well as the tourism and cultural heritage theories. However, it was argued that the historical roots of tourism can be drawn back roughly to the existence of mankind on earth and the origins of civilization. Tourism has achieved much progress in the late century and, still, the world economy of the twenty-first century will be led by three industries: telecommunication, information technology, internet of face-book, twitter, you tube and tourism.

Keywords: Tourism history; marketing destination; atlas of the world, internet, Jordan.