Chapter 1.Tourism, hotel industry and banking development : the Lake Geneva case at the beginning of the 20th Century …This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe’s tourism economy … case studies, chapters illuminate the different factors linking hotels and the broader tourism system including …

associated to the environment preservation, such as: tourism in natural areas, ecotourism, adventure tourism, tourism in … the exploitation of natural areas by tourism has different forms, according to their extension, their landscape complexity … wilderness, camping. As a conclusion, we can say that the protected areas have become more and more a part of tourism, being …