This article reconstructs the heated – local and national – debate around the consistent and pervasive foreign presence in the border territory of Lake Garda on the eve of the Great War. Here, the growing nationalistic tensions that preceded the conflict intertwined with the emerging hospitality industry. Tourism, seen as a social phenomenon, can thus offer a privileged perspective on the transformations of the general context of the time. Introduced by Austro-Germanic inhabitants of the lake at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the hospitality industry on Lake Garda flourished up to the eve of the Great War. There were, however, also opponents to this model of development. The dispute escalated to the point that, in the perception of the locals, the ‘outsiders’ turned into ‘enemies’ and Lake Garda increasingly became a disputed area: a symbol of the tensions of the time.

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有争议的湖：大战前夕旅游与民族主义之间的加尔达湖

本文重建了关于第一次世界大战前夕在加尔达湖边境地区持续和普遍存在的外国存在的激烈的 - 地方和国家 - 辩论。在这里，冲突前日益加剧的民族主义紧张局势与新兴的酒店业交织在一起。旅游业，被视为一种社会现象，因此可以提供一个特殊的视角来观察当时一般背景的转变。在 19 世纪和 20 世纪之交，加尔达湖上的奥日耳曼居民引进了加尔达湖的酒店业，直到第一次世界大战前夕才蓬勃发展。然而，也有人反对这种发展模式。争端升级到在当地人看来，