An Incursion into a Staged Past: Bucharest’s Communist Heritage as a Tourism
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An Incursion into a Staged Past: Bucharest’s Communist Heritage as a Tourism Product
An Incursion into a Staged Past: Bucharest’s Communist Heritage as a Tourism Product

Author(s): Alina Brașoveanu
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation, Tourism
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: communism; postcommunism; heritage; tourism; Bucharest;

Summary/Abstract: The present article explores the way in which in the present postcommunist period the recent communist past, local heritage, history and memory, are being presented to foreign visitors as tourism products. The core of the paper is the notion of communist heritage and the analysis of its various uses in the sphere of the Romanian incoming tourism industry. The article is based upon content research of the itineraries of Bucharest communist heritage tours, with a focus on Bucharest’s immovable heritage from the communist period, as it is presented in online touristic materials by local travel agencies and tour guides targeting foreign tourists. Moreover, the study offers an overview of the way Communist heritage tourism in Bucharest may indicate, through its uses of the local immovable communist heritage, a new stage in dealing with a long unwanted past.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 153-165
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English