Date: 2023
Type: Article
Unpacking tourism in the cold war : international tourism and commercialism in socialist Romania, 1960s–1980s
Contemporary European history, 2023, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 365-384
STEFAN, Adelina Oana, Unpacking tourism in the cold war : international tourism and commercialism in socialist Romania, 1960s–1980s, Contemporary European history, 2023, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 365-384
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74335
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The role of market-oriented tourist policies in the planned economies of socialist Eastern Europe has been long overlooked. This article examines how the socialist regime in Romania moved from sheer ideological rhetoric to commercialism and market-driven strategies when promoting Romania as a tourist destination in the ‘West’ between the 1960s and the 1980s. It argues that there was a continual shifting between using tourism as an ideological tool and a certain pragmatism that was needed to turn socialist Romania into a desirable tourist destination.
Additional information:
Published online: 08 March 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74335
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S0960777321000540
ISSN: 0960-7773; 1469-2171
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Sponsorship and Funder information:
The research leading to this article is part of the project PanEur1970s, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 669194).
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