ABSTRACT
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of tourism, from sun-and-sea package tours to human rights travels, in key Eastern European locations including East Berlin, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Albania. The bookâs analysis of the politics, culture, and history of tourism to the East offers important new perspectives on European tourism in the twentieth century.
The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
Organising Western tourism in the East
chapter 1|24 pages
Exporting holidays
chapter 2|14 pages
The lure of capitalism
chapter 3|16 pages
Experiencing communism, bolstering capitalism
part II|80 pages
Encounters
chapter 6|16 pages
âMuch more freedom of thought than expected thereâ
part III|50 pages
The politics of tourism during the Cold War