A Shakespearean Prophecy Fulfilled? Slav Solidarity and the Colonial Gaze in Czech Tourism on the Eastern Adriatic (1890s–1930s)

Abstract This article discusses discourses of Czech tourism on the Eastern Adriatic coast between turn twentieth century and 1930s using resorts in Baška Krk Island Kupari near Dubrovnik as case studies. The author argues that ideological foundation this type was a narrative proximity Czechs their fellow Slav Croatians. At same time, practice characterized by pattern cultural paternalism economic exploitation toward local population. It thus became pseudo-colonial enterprise distorted national myth democracy, rationalism, cosmopolitanism. Nevertheless, still contributed to mediation South Slavs. illustrates point highlighting commemoration Yugoslav playwright Ivo Vojnović tourists 1930s.