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Heile Bergwelt

Das Jungfraujoch gehört neben Paris, London und Berlin zum Pflichtprogramm für europareisende Japaner. Pro Jahr fahren etwa 130‘000 japanische Touristen mit der Jungfraubahn auf den Gipfel, um dort...

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Panorama vom Rigi Berg

Im 19. Jahrhundert wurden die Schweizer Alpen und im Besonderen einfach zugängliche Aussichtsberge wie die Rigi zu Sehnsuchtsorten für aristokratische und vermögende bürgerliche Reisende aus ganz...

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Corpus delicti: Rebblatt

Robert Gnehm (1852-1926) war manches in seinem arbeitssamen Leben: Kolorist, Chemiker, CEO, Verwaltungsratspräsident, Parlamentarier, ETH-Professor, Rektor und Präsident des Schweizerischen Schulrats....

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From the trenches of the First World War to the university lecture halls: war...

Switzerland must have seemed like paradise to him. After one and a half years in POW camp in Germany, Jean Chopin, a twenty-five-year-old French infantryman, was allowed to leave for neutral...

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1841 aufs Matterhorn? Die Exkursionen von Arnold Escher in Zermatt

Uns allen ist das Jahr der Erstbesteigung des Matterhorns geläufig, denn ein veranstaltungsreiches Jubiläumsjahr geht zu Ende. Man schrieb das Jahr 1865, als der Berg bezwungen wurde. Gab es bereits...

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International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017

As early as 2002 the United Nations proclaimed the International Year of Ecotourism and was then heavily criticized for it. The year 2017 has now been proclaimed as “International Year of Sustainable...

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Walter Mittelholzer, tour operator

Commercial air travel for tourists began in Europe after the First World War in 1919. In Switzerland, Walter Mittelholzer and Alfred Comte, the driving forces behind the Swiss airline company Ad Astra...

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The Tourist, a Puzzle

Does an ideal type tourist exist at all? The manifestations of tourism are certainly as manifold as people themselves. Instead of an impossible definition, history, classification or typology we are...

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Sustainable tourism for the Swiss alpine region?

Mass tourism in the Swiss Alps was already a grim prospect for Hans Magnus Enzensberger in 1958. In his famous and oft-criticised essay Vergebliche Brandung der Ferne, Eine Theorie des Tourismus, he...

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Born to be wild in the Swiss National Park

The first “modern” national parks were founded in the USA: Yosemite (1864) and Yellowstone (1872). For centuries, however, efforts have been made to preserve nature and shield it from human influence....

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