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introduction. organization.
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Sansvik, at Kullen (Skåne).
The programme of the Association is considerably more extensive than those
of the Alpine- and Tourist Associations existing abroad. In the first place, the
Association has devoted its energies to the task of spreading among Swedes
themselves a knowledge of Sweden, and of awakening an interest in the study
of the natural features and the people of the country. For example, it issues
a profusely illustrated annual, which is distributed gratis to those paying the
yearly subscription of 3 kronor; at the present time this annual is a book of
some 400 pages with descriptions of various parts of Sweden and a large number
of well executed pictures of different parts of the country. The Association
also makes grants for the furtherance of scientific investigations likely to be of
use or interest from a tourist point of view, and every year it makes grants
to a great number of elementary and secondary schools in order to promote or
assist the summer-tours of school children, besides which it arranges lectures,
exhibitions, etc. It has also founded a very extensive collection of
photographs and, in this connection, has arranged several photographic competitions.
In order to facilitate travelling within the country, the Association has had a
large number of guide-books written; it has erected a large tourist-station at
Abisko in Lappland and a number of tourist-huts in the mountain-districts of
the country, and has placed quite a fleet of boats on the Lappland lakes.
Roads, too, have been constructed, guides appointed, and view-towers erected,
etc. In addition, the Association has endeavoured to bring about various reforms
as regards the hotels and the routes and means of communication, and to
procure for its members cheaper travelling by means of rebates obtained from
hotels, railways, steamboats, etc.
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