The tourism in Switzerland or the arrival of an excellence model (XIX and XXth centuries)
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Abstract
The main foundation of the development of Swiss tourism has been an intensive exploitation of the mountain as made possible by the transformation of man's relation with nature. The aim of the paper is to show how, from this initial framework, Swiss tourism became a model other countries or regions try to imitate. In this regard, exploiting the economic potential of the Alps, meant, above all, dominating them technologically, particularly with the construction of mountain railways, the growing dominance of large-scale hotels, etc. These fundamental aspects went with the diffusion and the consolidation of a political and symbolical image of the Swiss identity closely associated with the mountains. All these elements gave to Swiss tourism a consistency which appeared to be inherent to the emergence of a tourist industry.
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