The colonial tourism

An example of tourism development in the settlements is the case of the Netherlands Indies. Between 1890 and 1910, publishing travel guides multiply. The colonial government includes the profit that can be drawn from this interest, and built relay progress through the island of Java, the Pasanggrahan. Between 1900 and 1930, tourism by Europeans in Java experiencing a boom. At Batavia, the capital of the colony, a Travellers' Official Information Office publishes guides touting the charms of the "East Indies". The tire manufacturer Goodyear publishes maps. Prestigious hotels were built across the island. This development is made possible by the improvement of maritime links between Batavia and Singapore, the main British colony in the region and already a important2 port. 

Another example is the French colonial tourism: creation of the hill station of Dalat in Việt Nam in 1916, tourism in North Africa in the late nineteenth century favored by the Grand Tour aristocrats from the seventeenth century, travel by intellectuals and artists in the eighteenth century and then by the imperial authorities that arouse curiosity and taste for the exotic. These authorities, through public organizations or private institutions (Touring Club of France, tourist offices, transatlantic companies like General Transatlantic Company, railways as the PLM), set up Committees of hivernage3 , are building hotels, casinos, theaters, roads, tourist resorts, publish guides, preserve local heritage (souks, mosques). They use propaganda to glorify colonialism and even encourage the arrival of new settlers. After the crisis of 1929, the fledgling tourism decline in favor of "domestic tourism" colonial officials and tourism more popular (especially members of the association Tourism and Work of John Faucher of the Tourism Association of Railway who take their leave with summering committees). The authorities create parallel ad hoc institutions (OFALAC4 in Algeria, Tunisia Lotus) to develop economically colonized these areas, for example multiplication of Algeria national parks. After World War II, with the development of mass tourism, are implemented concerted actions touristique5 development.