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

Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and ethnic conflict in the past two decades. For many former citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the good life people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country,...