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

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Susan Barton Jeffrey Richards

Healthy Living in the Alps

The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860–1914

Susan Barton, Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
01 July 2014

Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Tourism industry; Winter sports

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

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. -- .

By: Susan Barton
Series edited by: Jeffrey Richards
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 313g
ISBN: 9780719095658
ISBN 10: 0719095654
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 01 July 2014
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

General Editors introduction Introduction 1. The quest for health in the Alps 2. Davos 3. St Moritz 4. Arosa 5. Leysin 6. Grindelwald 7. Transfer of technology 8. Who were the first winter sports men and women Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .

Susan Barton is an Honorary Research Fellow at De Montfort University