Leisure travel

Leisure travel was linked with the industrialisation of United Kingdom – the first European country to endorse leisure time to the increasing industrial population. At first, this applied to the owners of the equipment of production, the economic oligarchy, the factory owners, and the traders. These comprised the new middle class. Cox & Kings were the primary official travel company to be formed in 1758. Later, the working class could take advantage of leisure time.

The British source of this new industry is reflected in many place names. At Nice, France, one of the first and best-established holiday resorts on the French Riviera, the long esplanade along the seafront is known to this day as the walkway des Anglais; in many other historic resorts in continental Europe, old well-established palace hotels have names like the Hotel Bristol, the Hotel Carlton or the Hotel Majestic - shiny the dominance of English customers.

Many tourists do leisure tourism in the tropics both in the summer and winter. It is frequently done in places such as Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Thailand, North Queensland in Australia and Florida in the United States.

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Global Weather Patterns

Deserts tend to occur in two belts that circle the globe. Both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere have this belt located between 15 and 35 degrees latitude, roughly centered over the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. This is no accident. The sun is more directly overhead the equatorial region so it receives the most intense sunlight, and this solar energy heats the air. Hot air has two important qualities: it can hold enormous quantities of moisture, and it rises up into the atmosphere. So hot tropical air tends to be moist and rise into the atmosphere. As this air rises it cools, condensing the moisture and converting it to water where it falls as rain. This is why rain forests tend to occur near the equator. What goes up must come down, and gravity pulls this mass of rising air back to the ground. Tropical air typically falls at about 30 degrees latitude on either side of the equator and along the desert belt, but robbed of its moisture it is now hot and dry. The result are often persistent high pressure systems that tend to block incoming storms, or push them into other regions. These patterns make deserts possible, but typically other factor must also intrude to make deserts a reality.

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Munising Falls

Located within the city limits of Munising where Washington Street becomes Sand Point Road, near Munising Memorial Hospital. The Munising Falls Interpretive Center is at the beginning of the trail to the waterfalls.

Walk the paved .25 mile trail up the cool shaded sandstone canyon along Munising Creek to the base of the falls. Two sets of stairs lead to platforms to view the 50 foot waterfall as it drops over a sandstone cliff. Watch for ferns, wildflowers, and an occasional mink.

The trail is fully accessible to the central falls viewing platform. Please stay on the paved trail. Pets are permitted on the trail to Munising Falls.

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