This article attempts to expand the comprehension of important driving forces in the development of tourism. The aim is to map and categorize innovations that basically happened outside the tourist sector but nevertheless had decisive impacts in tourism. Accordingly, the article addresses the derived developments that take place in tourism as a consequence of scientific, technological, institutional and other innovations outside the tourism sector. The history of science and technology relates to the invention of methods, tools, and techniques, and it investigates how emerging knowledge has enabled people to create new things and systems Further, the history of science and technology examines how humanity’s understanding of the natural world (science) and ability to manipulate it have changed over time. As an academic discipline, it also addresses the cultural, economic, and political impacts of scientific inventions and innovations. The study of science and technology and their impacts in terms of the transformation of tourism is a potentially enormous topic with many aspects. For example, portraits of legendary tourism developers, such as Thomas Cook, address the underlying technological inventions. An encompassing analysis of tourism and technologies was provided by Stepanek in 1993.