Hidden, yet visible workers of Czechoslovak international tourism. Macro and micro-historical views of ČEDOK’s branches abroad and tour guides during the period of late socialism (1968–1989)

IF 0.3 Q4 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/1755182X.2020.1854353

Pavel Mücke

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The former Czechoslovak ČEDOK Travel Bureau was a prominent institutional protagonist, a semi-state representative, and a symbolic flagship of Czechoslovak state-socialist tourism during the whole Cold War period, especially in the so-called golden age of Czechoslovak state-socialist tourism between 1968 and 1989. The article tries to describe the main contours of the macro- and micro-history of two selected parts/communities of the company – ČEDOK’s branches abroad in Eastern and Western countries and tour guides. These actors were not only responsible for an essential part of the company’s total revenues, but they were also very visible brand faces towards the public. Last but not least, they remain unknown protagonists in contemporary tourism historiography. The article aims to re-think the role played by the tourism sector (or even the tourism industry) in state-socialist regimes of the former Eastern Bloc.

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捷克斯洛伐克国际旅游业隐秘而显眼的工作人员。社会主义后期（1968–1989）ČEDOK海外分支机构和导游的宏观和微观史观

前捷克斯洛伐克ČEDOK旅游局是捷克斯洛伐克国家社会主义旅游在整个冷战时期，特别是在1968年至1989年所谓的捷克斯洛伐克国家社会主义旅游的黄金时期，一个突出的机构主角，一个半国家代表和象征性旗舰。本文试图描述该公司的两个部分/社区- ČEDOK在东西方国家的海外分支机构和导游的宏观和微观历史的主要轮廓。这些演员不仅负责公司总收入的重要组成部分，而且他们也是公众非常明显的品牌面孔。最后但并非最不重要的是，他们仍然是当代旅游史学中不为人知的主角。本文旨在重新思考旅游部门(甚至旅游业)在前东欧集团国家社会主义政权中所扮演的角色。

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Journal of Tourism History HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Tourism History is the primary venue for peer-reviewed scholarship covering all aspects of the evolution of tourism from earliest times to the postwar world. Articles address all regions of the globe and often adopt interdisciplinary approaches for exploring the past. The Journal of Tourism History is particularly (though not exclusively) interested in promoting the study of areas and subjects underrepresented in current scholarship, work for example examining the history of tourism in Asia and Africa, as well as developments that took place before the nineteenth century. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, Journal of Tourism History also features short articles about particularly useful archival collections, book reviews, review essays, and round table discussions that explore developing areas of tourism scholarship. The Editorial Board hopes that these additions will prompt further exploration of issues such as the vectors along which tourism spread, the evolution of specific types of ‘niche’ tourism, and the intersections of tourism history with the environment, medicine, politics, and more.