ABSTRACT
From the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851 onwards promoters hailed world’s fairs as “meeting-places of nations,”1 as “jubilé[s] des peoples,”2 as “Welt-und Völkerfeste”3 of a truly international character, or as great events showing “como todos se reunen.”4 ough doubts about the economic benet of the exhibitions always sat uneasily alongside eulogies of the events’ eect on human progress and world peace, the fairs’ impact on developments in many other areas is rmly established. Some of the these developments impinge directly on the way they transformed tourism and the tourist industry.
