| Abstrakt: |
The article deals with the reception of emerging tourist regions by British visitors in the mid-nineteenth century. Concentrating on the two most important destinations at the start of the tourism era, namely Switzerland and Upper Italy, the author compares the British tourist gaze by paying special attention to the changes that the visitors noted. In assessing local and regional adaptations to tourist demands, British travel handbooks and reports varied according to the regions under discussion and the aspirations associated with them. At the same time, what historical research on tourism has labelled "adaptive transformation" appears in the first instance to have been a standardization based on an English template. The article discusses the reasons for this, and in doing so, seeks to encourage further research on the reception of tourism regions as part of a wider European history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
