14. Coping with the Tourist: Planned and "Wild" Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast

Noack, Christian

doi:10.7591/9781501727238-016

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“…Ideologically, leisure travel in U.S.S.R. was not intended for relaxation or hedonic pleasures, but rather, for the citizens' physical endurance, health, ideology-laden education, and moral development (Noack, 2006). State-subsidized trips were more common for wellness treatments, to participate in sports competitions or mountain trekking, and visiting war/revolutionary sites and museums were common.…”

Section: Society-level Factors: Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond “culture”: A comparative study of forces structuring tourism consumption

Kirillova

Wang

et al. 2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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Section: Society-level Factors: Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond “culture”: A comparative study of forces structuring tourism consumption

Kirillova

Wang

et al. 2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…As with the rest of the Soviet Union, the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea beaches were the most popular tourist destinations among Estonians (Noack, 2006; Koenker, 2013) for the “exotic sensuality of the landscape, the food, and the people” (Rotkirch, 1999, p. 140). For Estonians, coming from a flat and chilly country, above all the sunny weather, warm sea and view of the snow-capped mountains were the prime targets of experience.…”

Section: Analysis: Experiences Of Places and Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Narrated Soviet tourist landscapes during late socialism

Rattus

Järs

2020

IJCTHR

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Purpose The study aims to provide an insight into the inherent diversities and ambiguities of Soviet touristic landscapes during the period of late socialism by a means of Estonian biographical sources. Based on written narratives, the study focuses on the embodied ways in which Estonian travellers engaged with and experienced foreign landscapes and people during trips within the Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach The study treats tourists’ travel landscapes as meaningful, lived experiences that highlight features and everyday life strategies that were characteristic of the Soviet period. Approaching via the lens of Estonian culture and nationality, the study analyses the meaningful experiences through which the narrators drew boundaries between the self and the other. Findings The Soviet tourism landscape of the 1960s–1980s was marked by sharp cultural contrasts. The landscapes that unfold in the narratives were full of contradictions, arousing feelings of both admiration and alienation. Whilst the ideological purpose of Soviet tourism was to build a “socialist nation”, the themed narratives, on the other hand, demonstrate the wide spectrum of everyday life practices, which show both the distancing of oneself from the Soviet system as well as conformation with it. Although tourism helped travellers accept the Union, this was achieved not by consenting to socialist ideology, but by becoming familiar with its heterogeneity. Originality/value Research on Soviet tourism has largely relied on archival sources and the press, which shed light mainly on the organisation and ideological basis of tourism. Drawing on oral sources, this study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the complex nature of Soviet tourist landscapes.

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“…On the other hand, it required ideological compromises to let it work in practice. 53 In political terms, tourism behind the Iron Curtain sparked skirmishes in the cultural Cold War. It carried the weight of expectation of both sides, as was evident in the CSCE negotiations of the tourism, visa, and currency regulations in the run-up to the Helsinki Final Act of 1975.…”

Section: Outline Of the Bookmentioning

confidence: 99%