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Planning Practices and the Development of Memorial Tourism in Socialist Yugoslavia

During the 1980s, approximately four to five million people annually visited the largest memorial complexes dedicated to the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle and the Socialist Revolution in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Yet the development of memorial tourism since the mid-fifties and its inclusion as one of the segments of the overall tourist offer has been insufficiently researched to date, both in the context of the post-war planning practices and development of tourism in socialist Yugoslavia, as well as in the context of the development of commemorative practices and policies of remembering WWII. This unfortunately results in frequent misapprehensions about memorial tourism as the result of commercialization and vulgarization of memory. On the contraty, the inclusion of the People's Liberation Struggle memorial sites in the tourism offer can be continuously observed from the mid-fifties onwards and seen as contribution to reflection on and the development of the typology of memorial as a living place of encounter, recreation and learning. Therefore, based on Yugoslav-era publications and archival sources, this paper aims to elucidate the framework set for the development of increasingly complex spatial plans both for individual memorial sites and whole areas that started to appear from the early sixties onwards, transforming the most important People's Liberation Struggle sites outside urban areas into places where visitors could engage in a broad range of activities, from wreath-laying to participation in art colonies and hiking.

Yugoslavia ; Memorial Tourism ; Post-WWII Planning Practices

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