Vacationing in Dictatorships - International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco''s Spain

"Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain examines international tourism in socialist Romania and Franco's Spain with an eye on the ways in which tourism built networks that went against the Cold War divide and transformed the two dictatorships from below"--

List of contents

Introduction

International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Francoist Spainin the 1950s

The 1960s and the "invention" of mass-tourism in two Europeanperipheries

Re-mapping of Tourist Geographies in the 1970s

International Tourism and Changing Patterns of Everyday Life untilthe 1980s

Foreign Tourists and Underground Consumption Practices

Beach tourism on the Black Sea Coast and Costa del Sol

Conclusion

About the author

Adelina Stefan is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at University of Luxembourg and Cultural Historian of the Cold War with a focus on tourism and consumption in socialist Romania.

Product details

• Authors: Adelina Stefan
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781501778506
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-7850-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Histories and Cultures of Tourism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries