Resorts and Ports : European Seaside Towns Since 1700

This book draws together case-studies which explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over 3 centuries. It will interest academics in tourism studies, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration. Introduction : the resort-port relationship / Peter Borsay and John K. Walton Towns of "health and mirth" : the first seaside resorts, 1730-1769 / Allan Brodie A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a seaside resort, fishing village, and port, c. 1700-1900 / Jan Hein Furnée "From the temple of Hygeia to the sordid devotees of Pluto." The Hotwell and Bristol : resort and port in the eighteenth century / David Hussey Three views of Brighton as a resort / Fred Gray From port to resort : Tenby and narratives of transition, 1760-1914 / Peter Borsay A town divided? sea-bathing, dock-building, and oyster-fishing in nineteenth-century Swansea / Louise Miskell Port and resort : symbiosis and conflict in "Old Whitby," England, since 1880 / John K. Walton Recycled maritime culture and landscape : various aspects of nineteenth-century shipping and fishing industries to twentieth-century tourism in southern Norway / Berit Eide Johnsen Gijcentn : from asturian regional port and industrial city, to touristic and cultural centre For the European Atlantic arc, from the nineteenth century to the present / Guy Saupin From a Baltic village to a leading health resort : reminiscences of the social history of Jurmala, Latvia / Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska From port to resort : art, heritage, and identity in the regeneration of Margate / Jason Wood.

Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from the 18th century to the 20th, and what the attributes of ports (fishing, harbour crafts, the whiff of the exotic, fishermen’s homes and families) contributed to the attractions of resorts. Case-studies drawn from across Europe, from Wales and the Netherlands to Norway, Latvia and Spain, bring original perspectives to bear on these histories and relationships, and consider their influence on seaside heritage and regeneration at a time when coastal settlements are increasingly using their past to secure their future. The book will interest academics in tourism studies, history, geography and cultural studies, as well as provide essential information and analysis for policy-makers in coastal regeneration.

Resorts and Ports draws together a group of case-studies which for the first time explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over three centuries. The book will interest academics in tourism studies, history, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing essential information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration 'Resorts and Ports' explores the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over three centuries