A journey of a journey

‘Thomas Cook’ is a leading brand in the tourism industry. To build a tourism brand considering the current atmosphere in India as well as the world does not look that daunting a task. But in 1841, the world was altogether different. Forget about the conducive environment, and there was no tourism industry in the first place. In this context, Thomas Cook started off and…

27th September is the world tourism day. Once on this day, I was traveling to Baltimore. I lived in Delaware, which is merely 70-71 miles away from Baltimore, yet Google maps showed 1 hour and 15 minutes to reach there. I took the same amount of time to arrive in Baltimore. Maryland is one of the smaller states in the fifty United States. Alaska is the largest state in size, with an area of 17 lakh 23 thousand sq. km. Compared to Alaska, Maryland is a tiny state with an area of nearly 32 thousand sq km ranking 42nd. Although Annapolis is the capital of Maryland, Baltimore is the biggest city in Maryland with a population of 60 lakhs. George Calvert founded it. He was a close friend of King James. George Calvert had insisted that King James should give protected lands to the Catholic Christians in England who had been subjected to injustice and harassment. This demand was obliged by King James’ son Charles, in the year 1632. Mary was his wife. The land was named after her, and this is how Maryland was born.