While the concept of travelling for personal pleasure stretches back much further than the invention of the camera, the advent of photography did serendipitously align with the tourism boom of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. This was the start of the symbiotic relationship between photography and tourism, meaning destinations could promote themselves across the world and  travellers had an exciting means of commemorating their time away.

Click through the gallery to see incredible black-and-white images that reveal the rise of leisure travel we might recognise today...