Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950-1980)

Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Preface: Some Contexts for Yugoslav Tourism History......Page 10
Tourism and the Making of Socialist Yugoslavia: An Introduction......Page 24
Part I “Holidays on Command”......Page 54
Workers into Tourists: Entitlements, Desires, and the Realities of Social Tourism under Yugoslav Socialism......Page 56
From Comrades to Consumers: Holidays, Leisure Time, and Ideology in Communist Yugoslavia......Page 92
The Yugoslav Road to International Tourism: Opening, Decentralization, and Propaganda in the Early 1950s......Page 130
Part II Tourism and the “Yugoslav Dream”......Page 162
Travelling to the Birthplace of “the Greatest Son of Yugoslav Nations”: The Construction of Kumrovec as a Political Tourism Destination......Page 164
My Own \"Vikendica\": Holiday Cottages as Idyll and Investment......Page 194
Highways of Desire: Cross-Border Shopping in Former Yugoslavia,1960s–1980s......Page 234
Part III: Tourism Economies in Transformation......Page 262
Fishing for Tourists: Tourism and Household Enterprise in Biograd na Moru......Page 264
Youth Labor Action (Omladinska radna akcija, ORA) as Ideological Holiday-Making......Page 302
What To Do at the Weekend? Leisure for Happy Consumers, Refreshed Workers, and Good Citizens......Page 326
Yugoslav Unity and Olympic Ideology at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games......Page 358
Synopsis......Page 388
Yugoslavia as It Once Was: What Tourism and Leisure Meant for the History of the Socialist Federation......Page 390
List of Contributors......Page 426
Index......Page 430