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During the Twentieth Century, foreign travel underwent a process of democratisation. Increasingly, through the development of package holidays to ever more far-flung destinations, leisure tourism for the first time allowed ordinary people to experience different cultures first hand. With the increased availability and affordability of foreign travel, actively promoted by travel agencies with strong left-wing political affiliations and supported and facilitated by international friendship societies, the number of western tourists visiting Eastern Europe multiplied through the 1960s and 1970s despite the Cold War. This paper will explore western tourism in Eastern Europe during the Cold War in a Scottish context through the material culture of travel collected during this period, focusing on the collection of Miss Eileen Crowford (1913 - 1990) held by National Museums Scotland. Miss Crowford was a life-long Edinburgh resident and an avid collector. Her collection spans the 20th centur...
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This article is a contribution to the developing body of research on tourism within the region of the Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to explore if and how Polish tourists to the former Soviet Union incorporate a historic past in their imaginaries. Sixty interviews carried out between 2008 and 2012 are analyzed in order to establish if there are references to the past in tourist accounts despite the fact history was not a major travel motivation. We were also interested in how the past co-creates tourist experiences and destination images. We found out that tourists may question dominant versions of historic memory in their straightforward references to the past. We also discovered that sources of memory are multiple and include not only first-hand memory but also family memory as well as non-representational memory. Some tourists purposefully suppressed the past. We suggest that more attention should be paid to 'traces' of the past in tourism imaginaries. There are relatively few studies on tourism within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (for exceptions see: Gorsuch & Koenker, 2006; Sowiński, 2005). Our aim is to cover this gap and demonstrate that the region is internally differentiated. We are particularly interested in the internal differences, tensions, hierarchies and clashes of memories in tourism imaginaries in the region (cf. Verschaeve & Wadle, 2014). This article focuses on the case of Polish tourists travelling to the countries of the former Soviet Union). If one compares a map of most visited routes by Polish tourists to the countries of the former Soviet Union with a map of the Polish diaspora in the same region, the pattern of mobility and settlement is strikingly similar (cf. Walaszek, 2001). At the same time, most tourists we interviewed did not have history at the top of their list of travel motivations. In the proposed paper we would like to address questions about a place of history in Polish tourists' imaginaries. How does the historic past becomes a blueprint for tourists' routes? What images of history Polish tourists have? How the past is remembered and what are the sources of memory in tourism imaginaries? Are there blind spots in the vision of the past, and do the past render itself to
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Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War
2008 •
Adam Swain
This paper considers the role of travel in the generation of geographical knowledge of the eastern bloc by British geographers. Based on oral history and surveys of published work, the paper examines the roles of three kinds of travel experience: individual private travels, tours via state tourist agencies, and tours by academic delegations. Examples are drawn from across the eastern bloc, including the USSR, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Albania. The relationship between travel and publication is addressed, notably within textbooks, and in the Geographical Magazine. The study argues for the extension of accounts of cultures of geographical travel, and seeks to supplement the existing historiography of Cold War geography.
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