The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century : Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe, 1900-1970 / / edited by Carlos Larrinaga and Donatella Strangio

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 pages)
• Disciplina: 728.5
• Soggetto topico: Hotels; Tourism
• Persona (resp. second.): LarrinagaCarlos <1967->; StrangioDonatella
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Hotel Industry in Mountain Tourism Development: Balancing the Profit Motive and the General Interest (Pyrenees, Late Nineteenth Century-1960s) -- Hotels and Tourism Development Before 1914: An Archaeology of Public-Private Partnerships -- The Last Third of the Nineteenth Century Saw the Emergence of the First Integrated Companies, Based on Long-Term Public-Private Partnerships -- Varying Networks of Hotel Investors -- Initial Environmental and Professional Concerns About the Hotel Right-of-Way -- A Public Hotel Service? Promoting and Defending the Hotel Industry in the Face of Twentieth-Century Changes in Tourism -- The Inter-War Period: Spa Modernization Projects and the Perpetuation of Emergency Public Intervention -- Grand Hotels: The Disappearance of Structuring Establishments (1930s-1960s) -- Winter Sports Development: the Preponderance and Disappearance of Hotel Interests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 State Intervention in the Swiss Hospitality Industry: From the End of Laissez-Faire to the Beginnings of Neoliberalism (1915-1967) -- The Swiss Hospitality Industry and World War I: The Looming Threat of Discredit -- In the Face of Adversity: A Special Treatment for the Hotel Industry? -- Paying off Wartime Debts: The Implementation of the Hotelhilfsaktion -- From the Crisis of the 1930s to World War II: The Redeployment of the Hotelhilfsaktion -- Settling the Past and Looking to the Future: The Law of September 28, 1944 -- Post-World War II Dissonances -- The Emergence of a New Support Scheme for the Hospitality Industry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Tourism, Hotel Industry and Banking Development: The Case of the Lake Geneva Region at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. ; Regional Tourism Development and Banking Activities -- Actors, Chronology and Spatiality of Capital Exports to Other Tourist Regions -- Lake Geneva Region's Investments in the French Resort of Chamonix -- Measuring the Capital Invested in Tourism Outside the Lake Geneva Region: The Lausanne Stock Exchange -- Tourism, a Powerful Engine for the Development of the Lake Geneva Banking Sector -- Notes -- References -- 5 Demobilisation and the Postwar Hotel: Britain's Release and Retention of Requisitioned Premises, 1918-1925 -- Postwar Britain and State: New Accommodations -- Hosting the State? Hotels in British Postwar I Landscape -- The Angel Hotel: A Case Study in Requisitioning and Retention -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6 Brittany Hotel Industry and Second Word War: Total Crisis, Global Opportunism (1940-1952) -- A Small Hotel Away from Modernity at the Start of the Conflict -- Adapting to a New Customer Base -- Tastes of Luxury -- An Unhoped-for Replacement Income -- A Boon for Everyone? -- The Hotel Industry, a Priority Sector During the Liberation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 A Grand Hôtel Between the Liberal Age and Fascism in Italy: Grand Hôtel du Vésuve in Naples -- Introduction -- Foreign Capitals in the Tourism Revival of Naples -- The Early Years of the Twentieth Century: Standardization and Luxury -- World War I: Tourism Suffers a Prolonged Crisis -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 Relations Between Companies and the State in the First Third of the Twentieth Century. The Case of the Hotel Industry -- Relations Between the Hotel Industry and the State During the Liberal Parliamentary System (1900-1923) -- Changes in This Relationship During the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1931) -- Hotel Industry and the State in a Democratic System: The Second Republic (1931-1936) -- Notes -- References. ; 9 The Hotel Offer in the Province of Malaga (Spain) Between 1900 and 1936 -- Introduction -- The Hotel Offer of the City of Malaga at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Consolidation of the Accommodation Offer: The Great Hotels -- The Offer of Tourist Hotels in the Province -- Conclusions -- References -- 10 The Hospitality Sector in Italy. Hotel Industry and Tourist Flows in Rome in the Interwar Period -- Introduction: The Tourism of Italy with a Thousand Faces -- The Position of Italy in the International Field -- Hotels and Hoteliers in Italy -- Tourism and the Hotel Industry in Rome During the Interwar Period -- Tourist Flows in Rome (1921-1940) -- The Development of the Roman Hotel Industry (1920-1945) -- Notes -- References -- 11 The Origins of the Public Hotel Chain Paradores de Turismo de España, 1926-1936 -- Introduction -- The Origins of the Modern Tourism in Spain -- Comisaría Regia de Turismo (1911-1928) -- Patronato Nacional del Turismo (1928-1931) -- Patronato Nacional del Turismo (1931-1936) -- References -- 12 Conclusions -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century
• ISBN: 3-031-45889-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799226903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave studies in economic history.