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ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of nationalism and propaganda in the development of tourism in interwar Hungary through a case study of Hotel Palota, a luxury hotel established in 1930 in Northern Hungary. Historical legitimation played an important role in the development of the hotel, as the goal was to construct a resort that represented the glorious national past of Hungary as well as revisionist aspirations in the form of symbolic elements scattered throughout the hotel and its immediate environs. Contemporary discourses interpreted the prestige investment of the new Hungarian state in a variety of ways, from being a replacement of the Tatra Mountains that had been annexed to Czechoslovakia following World War I, to constituting a sacred space and national pilgrimage site, to being a subject of antisemitic and classist contention.
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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.
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