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| | Tourism - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | The terms tourist and tourism were first used as official terms in 1937 by the League of Nations. |
 | | Winter sports were largely invented by the British leisured classes initially at the Swiss village of Zermatt (Valais), and St Moritz in 1864. |
 | | The vocabulary of sport bears witness to this: rugby, football, and boxing all originated in Britain, and even Tennis, originally a French sport, was formalized and codified by the British, who hosted the first national championship in the nineteenth century, at Wimbledon. |
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