Unpacking Tourism in the Cold War: International Tourism and Commercialism in Socialist Romania, 1960s–1980s
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The role of market-oriented tourist policies in the planned economies socialist Eastern Europe has been long overlooked. This article examines how regime Romania moved from sheer ideological rhetoric to commercialism and market-driven strategies when promoting as a destination ‘West’ between 1960s 1980s. It argues that there was continual shifting using tourism an tool certain pragmatism needed turn into desirable destination.
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عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary European History
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1469-2171', '0960-7773']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777321000540