Chapter 1.Tourism, hotel industry and banking development : the Lake Geneva case at the beginning of the 20th Century, by Cédric Humair - University of Lausanne (Switzerland).- Chapter 2. Hotels during Wartime and Transitions to Peace: Resilience and Repurposing in Britain, 1914-1922, by Kevin James - University of Guelph (Canada).- Chapter 3. A grand hôtel between the liberal age and fascism in Italy: the Grand Hôtel du Vésuve in Naples, by Annunziata Berrino - Federico II University of Naples (Italy).- Chapter 4. Relations between companies and the State in the first third of 20th century in Spain. The hotel industry case, by Carlos Larrinaga - University of Granada (Spain).- Chapter 5. The hotel offer in the province of Malaga (Spain) between 1900 and 1936, by Marta Luque & Víctor M. Heredia - University of Malaga (Spain).- Chapter 6. The economy of hospitality in Italy. Hotel and accommodation system in Rome before the Second World War, by Donatella Strangio & Marco Teodori - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).- Chapter 7. The origins of the public hotel chain "Paradores de Turismo de España", 1926-1936, by Carmelo Pellejero - University of Malaga (Spain).- Chapter 8. Brittany hotel industry and Second Word War: total crisis, global opportunism (1940-1952), by Yves-Marie Evanno - Catholic University of the Western, South Brittany, UCO-BS, France) and Johan Vincent - ESTHUA, University of Angers, France).- Chapter 9. State intervention in the Swiss hospitality industry: from the end of the laissez-faire to the beginnings of neoliberalism (1915-1967), by Mathieu Narindal - Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland).- Chapter 10. Hotel industry and the commodification of mountain nature. Private initiative and tourist planning in the Pyrenees (1900s-1970s), by Steve Hagimont - Versailles Saint-Quentin University (France).- Chapter.11 Conclusion - Carlos Larrinaga and Donatella Strangio.