Interactions, cosmopolitanism and modernity on the Romanian coast in the 1960s-1970s

In 1976, "Vacances en Roumanie", a travel magazine aimed at foreign tourists and published in French, English, German and Russian, invited its readers to discover the casinos, jazz music, beauty contests, music concerts and cocktails on the Romanian Black Sea coast. This invitation contradicts the image of a dull tourist destination, with restaurants that close at 10 pm, with which we got used to describing the Romanian coast in the 80s.
Indeed, from the 1960s until the beginning of the 1980s, the Romanian seaside had become a place of interactions where tourists from all over Europe, as well as Romanian tourists, sought fun and rest, while tourism brought considerable revenues to the communist state.
When the Romanian state decided to develop tourism in the mid-1950s, the intention was to focus on bringing tourists from neighboring socialist countries, but also to offer Romanian tourists the possibility to spend their holidays at the seaside. This initiative was part of a b