The beach resorts are actually the resorts that are located on the coast. In these resorts the beach is actually the primary focus to attract some tourists. The beach resorts are also known as seaside resorts.

The beach resorts are not a modern concept, in fact it has bee around for centuries. The coast was always treated as a recreational place, however until the mid-nineteenth century, this recreation option was a luxury reserved for the wealthy people only.

In the Roman times, in the town of Baiae located in the Tyrrhenian Sea in Italy, a beach resort was made for people who were really prosperous. Then during the early nineteenth century, the Prince Regent promoted Brighton a beach resort on the southern coast of England, as an alternative to the wealthy spa towns like, Cheltenham.

Later on the Queen Victoria made a long-standing patronage of the Isle of Wight and Broadstairs in Kent. This patronage made sure that the seaside residence became a highly fashionable possession for the people who had enough wealth to have a separate home for recreational activities.

Then in the middle of the nineteenth century, people form lesser earning segments of the society also came forward and started taking holidays at t he beach resorts or seaside resorts. With the improved transports during the industrial revolution people were able to go on vacations at someplace away from their home. This paved way for the coastal towns as the potential places, for the development of seaside resorts or beach resorts. The biggest examples of this are places in England which are no more than 28 km away from sea beaches. he various

Since then a large number of beach resorts have come up all over the world. They have now spread from USA through all the way to India.