Editing Tourism (section)

===Winter tourism===
{{See also|List of ski areas and resorts|Winter sport}}
[[File:Arctic circle santa village.jpg|thumb|The [[Santa Claus Village]] at the [[Arctic Circle]] in [[Rovaniemi]], Finland is one of the significant tourist places in the Northern Europe.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.discoveringfinland.com/finnish-lapland/rovaniemi/| title = Rovaniemi Lapland Holidays – Discovering Finland}}</ref>]]

[[St. Moritz]], [[Switzerland]] became the cradle of the developing winter tourism in the 1860s: hotel manager Johannes Badrutt invited some summer guests from England to return in the winter to see the snowy landscape, thereby inaugurating a popular trend.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stmoritz.ch/en/winter/village/spirit-history/birthplace-of-winter-tourism.html|title=Birthplace of winter tourism|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017122131/http://www.stmoritz.ch/en/winter/village/spirit-history/birthplace-of-winter-tourism.html|archive-date=17 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Early Winter Tourism|url=http://www.kulmhotel-stmoritz.ch/en/portrait/tradition-history/early-winter-tourism.html|work=Tradition & History|publisher=Kulm Hotel|access-date=23 December 2011|location=[[St. Moritz]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219230025/http://www.kulmhotel-stmoritz.ch/en/portrait/tradition-history/early-winter-tourism.html|archive-date=19 December 2011}}</ref> It was, however, only in the 1970s when winter tourism took over the lead from summer tourism in many of the Swiss ski resorts. Even in winter, up to one third of all guests (depending on the location) consist of non-skiers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.graubuenden.ch/winter-walking-switzerland.html |title=Winter hiking in Switzerland-Graubünden |publisher=graubuenden.ch |access-date=23 December 2011 |archive-date=29 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129055539/http://en.graubuenden.ch/winter-walking-switzerland.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Major [[ski resort]]s are located mostly in the various European countries (e.g. [[Andorra]], [[Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Croatia]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Cyprus]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Greece]], [[Iceland]], [[Italy]], [[Norway]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[List of ski areas and resorts in Europe#Poland|Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Serbia]], [[Sweden]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]], [[Turkey]]), [[Canada]], the [[United States]] (e.g. Montana, Utah, Colorado, California, Wyoming, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York) [[Argentina]], [[New Zealand]], [[Japan]], [[South Korea]], [[Chile]], and [[Lebanon]].