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Text A    Why People Travel?
 

     Discretionary income, or disposable income, is money not needed for personal essentials such as food, clothing, health-care, transportation, and so forth. Smaller family size and an increase of women in the labor market have made today’s family more affluent, which greatly promotes the tourist industry.
     The improvement in transportation has facilitated travel on a large scale. The explosion of railway and automobile travel was followed by dynamic improvements in air service. Today, in many countries, elaborate road systems have been built so that a person can go from border to border or even across national borders in the case of Europe without being affected by a single red light or two-way traffic on the same road way. The vast network of roads and air connections and mass production of the car at a price many people can afford have led to the development of a tourist industry unmatched in history. With increasing affluence and leisure, and a relative decrease in cost travel, the growth of the travel industry will surely continue.

 
       
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