Family firm, health resort and industrial colony: The grand hotel and mineral springs at Mondariz Balneario, Spain, 1873–1932
2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 56; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00076791.2013.839661
ISSN1743-7938
Autores Tópico(s)Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
ResumoThere is a considerable literature on histories of family businesses, but very little dealing with the tourism and hospitality sector, despite growing recognition of its importance. This case study of a Spanish mineral springs resort between the 1870s and the 1930s sets the trajectory of Mondariz Balneario, Galicia, a family-run spa hotel with an elite clientele, in national and international context. It seeks to explain the resort's inter-generational success in terms of amenity, paternalism, imaginative publicity and networking, and a conscious quest for what would later be called sustainability, with added ingredients of Galician cultural patriotism and integration into the wider regional economy.
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