Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain

Sune Bechmann Pedersen; Christian Noack

doi:10.4324/9780429201127

Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain

Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Editor), Christian Noack (Editor)

University of Amsterdam

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Abstract

The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of tourism, from sun-and-sea package tours to human rights travels, in key Eastern European locations including East Berlin, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Albania. The book’s analysis of the politics, culture, and history of tourism to the East offers important new perspectives on European tourism in the twentieth century.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Number of pages	214
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-429-20112-7
ISBN (Print)	978-0-367-19212-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201127
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Name	Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Publisher	Routledge

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History

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