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Saturday, August 24 • 11:00 - 12:30
10K: Advertising Alpine landscapes. Environmental perceptions in Belle Époque tourism

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Organizer: Katharina Scharf, University of Salzburg
Chair: Martin Knoll, University of Salzburg

Images of urbanity within a mountain range: Innsbruck as tourism environment and Alpine landscape
Hester Margreiter, University of Salzburg

Making the High Alps accessible for tourists: Cog railways and their role for Belle Époque tourist advertising.
Christian Rohr, University of Bern

Boundless tourism in the Alps? Natural landscapes in Salzburg and Savoy between development and preservation
Katharina Scharf, University of Salzburg

Comment: Robert Groß, Innsbruck University

Abstract available HERE

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Martin Knoll

Full Professor, University of Salzburg, History Department

Speakers
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Robert Groß

University Assistant, BOKU Institute of Social Ecology/Innsbruck University, Institute of History and European Ethnology
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Hester Margreiter

University of Salzburg
My dissertation project “Tourism and Urban Dynamics: Structural Effects of Emerging Tourism in New Orleans (Louisiana) and Innsbruck (Tyrol)” aims to discuss the impact of early tourism at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Additionally, I study Sociological Theories and... Read More →
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Christian Rohr

Full Professor of Environmental and Climate History, Institute of History, University of Bern
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Katharina Scharf

University of Salzburg
Main research so far, at the moment and planned: - Tourism History, Gender History, Environmental History, National Socialism My doctoral thesis is a comparative analysis about tourism’s role in regional transformation processes in Salzburg and Savoy in the 19th and early 20th... Read More →



Saturday August 24, 2019 11:00 - 12:30 EEST
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