Tourism and Czech Society at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century Cover Image

Cestovní ruch a česká společnost na přelomu 19. a 20. století
Tourism and Czech Society at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century

Author(s): Jan Štemberk
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: tourism; history; Czech society; leisure time; hiking

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is dealing with an evaluation of tourism position in the Czech society in the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century. Tourism depending on social and economic state of society is examined as one of the attributes of modern society. The attention is preliminary paid to tourism development trends in the 19th century and to its position in the modernizing Czech society. The main part analyses tourism importance for individual social strata of the Czech society in the period under consideration. Analysis of tourism form from individual tourists’ view and their preferences didn’t stay out of attention.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 75-88
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Czech