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iv. education and mental cultulle.
In consequence of the economic importance for the country of attracting
tourists from abroad to Sweden, the Association has, for a succession of years,
devoted much care to this matter and has been very successful in distributing
in foreign countries a large number of tourist publications respecting Sweden,
while, by means of newspaper articles, lectures, exhibitions and the like, the
Association has endeavoured to direct the attention of foreign tourists to the
natural attractions possessed by the country.
On the West Coast of Sweden.
During the last few years, however, the work of advertising the leading
features of Sweden as a country for tourists has lain chiefly in the hands
of the Tourist Traffic Society (Sw. Turisttrafikförbundet) to which a
number of railways, steamboat companies, hotels, etc., have made yearly
grants. The Society obtained a more solid financial basis by the
foundation by some of its members in 1909 of the Tourist Traffic Society’s
Restaurant Company, which, in accordance with an agreement come to
with the Board of the State Railways, took over the dining-cars running
on the State Railways south of Stockholm, as well as the restaurants at
various stations and on steam-ferries.
In 1909, the Tourist Traffic Society, in connection with the opening of the
steam-ferry route Trälleborg-Sassnitz, opened the "Schwedisches Reisebureau’,
22 & 23, Unter den Linden, Berlin. A grant was made by the State to this
tourist office, which has since been continued annually. In 1913, a Swedish
Tourist Office was established in Paris. The Society has an agency in London,
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