Vacationing in dictatorships : international tourism in socialist Romania and Franco's Spain / Adelina Stefan ; foreword by Eric G. E. Zuelow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stefan, Adelina, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Zuelow, Eric G. E., writer of foreword.

Series:

Histories and cultures of tourism.

Histories and cultures of tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization and tourism--Romania.

Globalization and tourism.

Globalization and tourism--Spain.

Tourism--Romania--History--20th century.

Tourism.

Tourism--Spain--History--20th century.

Tourism--Social aspects--Romania.

Tourism--Social aspects--Spain.

Tourism--Political aspects--Romania.

Tourism--Political aspects--Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Vacationing in Dictatorships examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era. Despite sharp economic and political differences between the two dictatorial regimes at the start of the Cold War, significant similarities existed as both states took advantage of international tourism to improve their image abroad and pursued processes of economic modernization to acquire hard currencies. By the end of the 1970s though, the two countries achieved rather different results in terms of tourism development, despite the fact that both shared many features in the 1940s and 1950s.By comparing the rise and evolution of international tourism on different sides of the Iron Curtain, Adelina Stefan provides a different assessment of the geopolitics of postwar Europe that further refines the Cold War's geographies separating Eastern and Western Europe. As a result, Vacationing in Dictatorships reveals a new perspective on the Cold War that reveals not only the developmental similarities between Eastern and Southern Europe but also the ideological struggle that pitted socialist East against capitalist West.

Contents:

Introduction: Entangled Histories of Eastern and Southern Europe

Part One: Setting the Scene

1. International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the 1950s

2. The 1960s and the "Invention" of Mass Tourism in Two European Peripheries

3. The Remapping of Tourist Geographies in the 1970s

Part Two: Forging a Consumer Society

4. International Tourism and Changing Patterns of Everyday Life until 1989

5. Foreign Tourists and Underground Consumption Practices

6. Beach Tourism on Romania's Black Sea Coast and Spain's Costa del Sol

Conclusion: Entang led Futures of International Tourism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501778537

1501778536

9781501778520

1501778528

OCLC:

1422230863