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1. Tourism Diplomacy in Cold War Europe : Symbolic Gestures, Cultural Exchange and Human Rights

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Bechmann Pedersen, Sune, Stanoeva, Elitza, Bechmann Pedersen, Sune, and Stanoeva, Elitza

Abstract

The post-war boom in international travel made tourism a question for international diplomacy. Focusingon the growth of bilateral tourism agreements during the Cold War, this article shows how the meaning oftourism was negotiated by and between governments on either side of the East–West divide. While previous research on tourism in the Cold War has focused on the threat tourist traffic posed to nationalsecurity in socialist states, the present study also considers the dilemmas it presented to liberal democracies. The article analyses the intersections of tourism with issues of foreign trade, cultural exchange andhuman contacts, which shaped the contestations over tourism throughout the Cold War.

Published
2024
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2. A Passport to Peace? Modern Tourism and Internationalist Idealism.

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Bechmann Pedersen, Sune

Subjects
*HARD currencies, *PEACE, *PASSPORTS, *IDEALISM, *TOURISM
Abstract

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020
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