Editing History of Bermuda (section)

===Tourism===
{{wide image|Hamilton, Bermuda 1911b.jpg|950px|Panorama of Hamilton, 1911. View from Fort Hamilton.}}
[[File:1904 view of eastern Hamilton Harbour and Paget Parish from Fort Hamilton, Prospect Camp, Bermuda.jpg|thumb|1904 view across Hamilton Harbour from Fort Hamilton of cedar-cloaked hills in Paget Parish]]
[[File:Bermuda_harbour_1926.jpg|thumb|Hamilton Harbour in the mid-1920s.]]
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Tourism in Bermuda first developed in Victorian times, catering to a wealthy elite seeking to escape North American winters. Many also came hoping to find young aristocrats among the officers of the Garrison and Naval base to whom they might marry their daughters. Local hoteliers were quick to exploit this, and organised many dances and gatherings during the 'season', to which military and naval officers were given a blanket invitation.

Due historically to a third of Bermuda's manpower being at sea at any one time, and to many of those seamen being lost at sea or ultimately settling elsewhere, especially as the Bermudian maritime industry began to suffer, the colony was noted for having a high proportion of unmarried women well into the 20th century. Many Bermudian women had traditionally wed naval or military officers. With the arrival of tourism, young local women had to compete with American girls. Most Bermudian women who married officers left Bermuda when their husbands were stationed elsewhere. Enlisted men married Bermudians, and many of those remained in Bermuda when they left the Army.

Bermudian advertisements stated that the island was cooler in the summer than resorts on the north Atlantic coast of North America.<ref name="independent19140713">{{Cite magazine |date=1914-07-13 |title=Go to Bermuda |url=https://archive.org/details/independen79v80newy/page/n79/mode/1up |magazine=The Independent |type=advertisement |page=74 |access-date=2022-05-17}}</ref> In the early 20th century, as modern transport and communication systems developed, Bermuda became a popular destination for American, Canadian and British tourists arriving by sea. The United States 1930 [[Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act]] enacted protective tariffs that cut off Bermuda's once-thriving export trade of fresh vegetables to the United States and encouraged its development of tourism as an alternative.

After several failed attempts, the first aeroplane reached Bermuda in 1930. A [[Stinson Detroiter]] seaplane flying from [[New York City]], it had to land twice in the ocean: once because of darkness and again to refuel. Navigation and weather forecasting improved in 1933 when the [[Royal Air Force]] (then responsible for providing equipment and personnel for the Royal Navy's [[Fleet Air Arm]]) established a station at the Royal Naval Dockyard to repair (and supply replacement) float planes for the fleet. In 1936, [[Deutsche Luft Hansa|Luft Hansa]] began to experiment with seaplane flights from [[Berlin]] via the Azores with continuation to New York City.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oldqslcards.com/UNUSUAL_PLACE.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://oldqslcards.com/UNUSUAL_PLACE.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Unusual Place – Unusual Story – Heroic Crew|publisher=Oldqslcards.com|access-date=15 August 2012}}</ref>

[[Imperial Airways]] and [[Pan American World Airways]] began operating scheduled flying-boat airline services from New York and [[Baltimore]] to [[Darrell's Island, Bermuda]] in 1937, by which time the summer had become more important for tourists making briefer visits. It was not until after the Second World War, when the first airport for landplanes was built and the advent of the [[Jet Age]], that tourism fully realised its potential.