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Tourisme et Grande Guerre

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Yves-Marie Evanno
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Johan Vincent

I. Le tourisme, une pratique qui perdure malgré tout

Tourism in Scotland during the First World War

Alastair J. Durie

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The nineteenth century had seen tourism in Scotland grow from an elite experience for the few to one shared by all sections of Scottish society and by visitors from outside

Scotland. Many communities, whether coastal and inland, seaside, spa or sporting, had become dependent on the summer influx of visitors. Tourists found their way even to the very remote island of St Kilda, drawn by the slogan « Come and see Scotland’s own primitives ». There were several strands to tourism in Scotland depending on when in the year as to who went where, of which class and in what number. There was little tourism in Scotland over the winter months, with Easter marking the start of the season when spa resorts and hydro hotels began first to fill1. The hydros, large hydrotherapeutic hotels, for which the Scots had a particular enthusiasm, attracted a clientele who were churchy, respectable, and temperate; no alcohol was a flagship part of the regime2. From May onwards holidaymakers of all classes sta...

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Professeur à l’Université de Stirling, décédé le 5 octobre 2017. Il avait tout particulièrement travaillé, ces dernières années, sur l’histoire du tourisme en Écosse. Son dernier ouvrage, Scotland and Tourism The Long View, 1700–2015, est paru chez Routledge en 2017.

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