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- Wall Reinius, Sandra, 1974-
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A ticket to national parks? Tourism, railways and the establishment of national parks in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tourism and National Parks. - London : Routledge. - 9780415471565 ; , s. 184-196
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The point of departure for this chapter is the extent that commercial tourism interests, and particularly the railways, were a major factor in the establishment of national parks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This argument has been paramount, for example, in the works of Runte (1974a, 1974b, 1987, 1990), who argues that the western railways played a crucial role at the turn of the twentieth century for the establishment of national parks in the United States, including parks such as Yosemite and Yellowstone – an observation also supported by subsequent research in the US (e.g. Orsi 1985, Sellars 1997); while the significant role of railway companies in park development has also been emphasized in Australia (e.g. Hall 1992) and in comparative studies of the New World national parks of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US (Hall and Shultis 1991). The relationship between tourism and national parks acted to serve the interests of both park advocates and the railways. The railway companies promoted tourism in order to utilize and increase existing capacity, the construction of new lines and grow their profits, and the preservationists promoted tourism in order to gain public support for the national parks. However, the role of railways in the origins of national parks has not yet been addressed in detail in a Nordic context.
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