Seaside tourism, leisure and dance from 1948-1989

1948, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1982, 1985, 1989

Even if the above figures seem to represent a random string of years, their choice reflects a changing pattern from the perspective of tourism and leisure on the Romanian coast during the communist period. The red thread I have chosen is dance, a cultural element less studied in research on tourism in this historical stage, from the nationalizations in 1948 to the fall of the communist regime and the end of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship at the end of 1989.
In parallel to punctuating the successive cycles of political freeze and thaw with their effects on the evolution of Romanian tourism, we tracked a number of socio-cultural variables, such as leisure, entertainment scene and nightlife. The post-war younger generations matured, socialized and participated in leisure activities in a cultural and technological environment quite different from that of their parents, a trend that was accentuated in the 1970