Modern Travel · event 13 of 19

1989

The Berlin Wall falls. Eastern Europe opens to travel within months. Prague, Budapest, Krakow and later the Baltic states and the Balkans move from inaccessible to weekend-break destinations inside a decade.

The Modern Travel era

  1. 1900
  2. 1903
  3. 1930s
  4. 1936
  5. 1950
  6. 1957
  7. 1958
  8. 1960s
  9. 1962
  10. 1973
  11. 1978
  12. 1985
  13. 1989
  14. 1994
  15. 2001
  16. 2008
  17. 2016
  18. March 2020
  19. 2024

See the full timeline or read the short history of travel.