I often find it very interesting to contemplate the way in which the travel industry has changed over the past one hundred years. Back in the Edwardian period, you would be more inclined to spend your holidays in one of the many hotels and guesthouses that adorn the sea fronts of our famous coastal towns. Today, however, with the advent of air travel, people are even able to consider furnished apartments Sydney for their next trip.

When you really get down to exploring the planet we all share, you actually soon come to realise that it is not as big as you may think. Indeed, one hundreds years ago, when you were forced to travel overseas by a ship, everything took so much longer to get to and distances appeared vast.

Nowadays, for example, you can travel across the entire Atlantic in around 7 hours, one hundred years ago, you were looking at setting aside a complete week of your life to make this journey alone.

Then of course, contemporary travel now allows us to explore lands that we were only really able to read about one hundred years ago. We can travel to the Far East, or as already mentioned, to the other side of the world completely - with Australasia no more than one day's travel away.

There is no denying the fact that the travel industry has changed beyond all recognition within 10 short decades. I wonder if in 100 years from now we will be looking back on this era of travel and thinking how behind the times we are, as we rocket off to distant planets around other Suns.