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Healthy Living in the Alps: The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914

Hardback

Main Details

Title Healthy Living in the Alps: The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Susan Barton
SeriesStudies in Popular Culture
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreTourism industry
Winter sports
ISBN/Barcode 9780719078439
ClassificationsDewey:306.461
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 November 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism. The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids were resting as part of the sanatoria routine. Demonstrating that this is not just part of the history of Switzerland but of Britain too, biographical backgrounds of British visitors to the resorts give depth and context to a history of health and winter sports tourism by looking at the kind of people who would spend months of the year in the Alps. A discussion of the application of modern technologies creates an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland -- .

Author Biography

Susan Barton is an Associate of the International Centre for the Study of Sports History and Culture at de Montfort University, and works at Moat Community College, Leicester