Time tourism

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Time tourism, also referred to as temporal tourism, (PROSE: Gallifrey: A Rough Guide [+]Loading...["Gallifrey: A Rough Guide (short story)"], The Druimport Entwister No. 276 [+]Loading...["The Druimport Entwister No. 276 (short story)"]) was a form of tourism in which time tourists time travelled to famous or desirable points in history. Often this was organised by companies such as Nostalgia Tours, (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)","Delta and the Bannermen"]) Jolly Chronolidays, Past Perusals, (AUDIO: Omega [+]Loading...["Omega (BFM audio story)"]) Yesterways LTD, (PROSE: Possum Kingdom [+]Loading...["Possum Kingdom (short story)"]) and Thadeus Nook's Time Tours. (AUDIO: The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook [+]Loading...["The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (audio story)"])

Time tourists frequented parts of Earth history such as ancient Athens, (AUDIO: Mask of Tragedy [+]Loading...["Mask of Tragedy (audio story)"]) the life of Richard III of England, (AUDIO: The Kingmaker [+]Loading...["The Kingmaker (audio story)"]) and 1950s Disneyland. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)"]) Gallifreyan history was also a common point of interest. (PROSE: Gallifrey: A Rough Guide [+]Loading...["Gallifrey: A Rough Guide (short story)"], AUDIO: Omega [+]Loading...["Omega (BFM audio story)"])

During the Seventh Doctor's lifetime, time tourism was regulated by the Time Lords, who provided the Navarinos with limited temporal capabilities. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)","Return of the Living Dad"]) However, temporal tourism was less regulated further into the future beyond the Time Lords' domain. (PROSE: Gallifrey: A Rough Guide [+]Loading...["Gallifrey: A Rough Guide (short story)"], AUDIO: Omega [+]Loading...["Omega (BFM audio story)"])

During the multiverse collapse, Earth's timeline was massively destablised by the company Good Times offering time travel tours to every point in history, thus commercially sanitising every culture at every point in time. (PROSE: The Last Resort [+]Loading...["The Last Resort (novel)"])

The Fourteenth Doctor accused four aliens at the 1966 World Cup Final of being "time tourists" before he discovered that he was in the Dalek Dome. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])