Architecture

Mass tourism and special villas

The post-war revival of programs for architecture for tourism and seasonal housing was closely linked to state intervention. The revival of tourism themes after 1947 in important state programs for the development of seaside resorts and the creation of new ones began with the seaside resorts. The nationalization and centralized reorganization of the economy did not bypass the tourist sector either. In parallel with the abolition of private tourist associations, the National Tourist Office was transferred to the General Confederation of Labor1 in 1949. The transfer to the "trade unions" indicated very clearly the direction in which domestic tourism for the general population was to take - that of mass tourism. In practice, however, with the transfer of tasks to a trade union, tourism initially manifested itself mainly in the reorganization of the operation of the existing assets of the "spa resorts, to be used as far as possible throughout the year to improve the care of w

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