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Milan Balaban, PhD
Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Bata Information Centre, Czech Republic

 

Irena Balaban Cakirpaloglu, PhD
National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

 

Dalibor Savić, PhD
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

YUGOSLAV TOURISTS IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK SPAS DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1918-1939)

Vol. XLIII, 1/2025, pp. 19-35
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2025.1.bal.19-35

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

ABSTRACT/RESUME: This study explo­res the over­lo­o­ked phe­no­me­non of Yugo­slav to­u­rists in Czec­ho­slo­vak spas du­ring the in­terwar pe­ri­od, em­ploying arc­hi­val re­se­arch, tra­ve­lo­gu­es, and con­tem­po­rary pe­ri­o­di­cals. Ba­sed on the men­ti­o­ned so­ur­ces and thro­ugh the lens of the hi­story and so­ci­o­logy of to­u­rism, the pa­per pre­sents the re­se­arch re­sults re­la­ted to the de­ve­lop­ment of spa to­u­rism in Czec­ho­slo­va­kia, the bro­a­der cul­tu­ral, po­li­ti­cal, and eco­no­mic con­text of the cir­cum­stan­ces in­flu­en­cing the in­ter­est of Yugo­slav to­u­rists in Czec­ho­slo­va­ki­an spas, the accessi­bi­lity of tra­vel and stay in Czech spas for Yugo­slav to­u­rists, as well as the in­ter­cul­tu­ral di­men­si­on of re­a­sons for to­u­rist tra­vel between Yugo­sla­via and Czec­ho­slo­va­kia. Ba­sed on these re­sults, it can be conc­lu­ded that, de­spi­te fa­vo­ra­ble po­li­ti­cal and cul­tu­ral cir­cum­stan­ces, the eco­no­mic fac­tor re­pre­sen­ted the gre­a­test ob­stac­le to a mo­re sig­ni­fi­cant in­flux of Yugo­slav to­u­rists to Czec­ho­slo­va­ki­an spas. In this sen­se, it is no­ti­ce­a­ble that only mem­bers of the eli­te clas­ses of Yugo­slav so­ci­ety co­uld af­ford vi­sits to Czec­ho­slo­va­ki­an spas. However, even among this po­pu­la­ti­on, it is pos­si­ble to ob­ser­ve that af­ter an in­cre­a­se in in­ter­est du­ring the 1920s, the­re was a dec­li­ne in in­ter­est du­ring the 1930s due to the Gre­at De­pres­si­on. Furt­her­mo­re, the pa­per po­ints out that a cer­ta­in num­ber of Yugo­slav to­u­rists vi­si­ted Czec­ho­slo­va­ki­an spas due to a de­si­re to bet­ter un­der­stand ot­her Sla­vic cul­tu­res, with such trends ac­ti­vely en­co­u­ra­ged by propo­nents of Pan-Sla­vism.

 

KEYWORDS: Interwar tourism, Yugoslav tourists, Czechoslovak spas, Economic relations, History and sociology of tourism

 

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