A Paradise behind the Curtain: Selling Eastern Escapes to Scandinavians

Pedersen, Sune Bechmann

doi:10.14220/9783737009843.227

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“…29 Some Western companies made a point of offering tours with a Cold War flavour, for instance to Yugoslavia, "the country next to the Iron Curtain." 30 Western guidebooks to Eastern Europe, and especially to Berlin, the frontline of Cold War Europe, reflected the changing intensity of the conflict and its potential for dark tourism. Fielding's 1951 edition of Travel Guide to Europe called Berlin "a keg of dynamite and definitely not recommended under any circumstances."…”

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Crossing the Iron Curtain

Pedersen

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2019

Tourism and Travel During the Cold War

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Crossing the Iron Curtain

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2019

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A Passport to Peace? Modern Tourism and Internationalist Idealism

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2020

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Catchy slogans about tourism’s peace-promoting qualities abound – ‘passport to peace’, ‘a vital force for peace’ and ‘the peace industry’, to name but a few. Yet, despite the critical scrutiny of the peace–tourism nexus in recent decades, its historical roots remain unexplored. This article traces the origins of the idea that tourism can help advance peace and international understanding. It examines the aspirations of the various international tourist organisations founded during the interwar and early post-war period. While these organisations sought to foster peaceful relations across national and cultural borders, their discourse of tourism as a force for peace also gave legitimacy to a transnational tourist industry and government attempts to secure hard currency in the Cold War.

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A Paradise behind the Curtain: Selling Eastern Escapes to Scandinavians

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A Passport to Peace? Modern Tourism and Internationalist Idealism

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