Tourism and Dictatorship: Europe's Peaceful Invasion of Franco's Spain Book

List of Tables     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
List of Abbreviations     xiii
Introduction     1
Mass Tourism as International Relations     5
Spanish Modernization and European Tourism     9
Travel and Tourism in Spanish History     17
Peripheral Identity     17
Travel and Modernization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries     20
Tourism and Regenerationism     24
Tourism and the Early Franco Regime, 1936-1945     32
Tourism and International Engagement, 1945-1957     39
Tourism as Commerce and Diplomacy     43
Tourism and Border Security     53
From Nationalist Propaganda to Consumer Diplomacy     57
Preparing for Mass Tourism in the 1940s     57
Hotels and Consumer Diplomacy     61
The Ministry of Information and Tourism     64
Breakthrough, 1957-1962     83
Tourism and Economic Stabilization, 1957-1959     85
American and European Pressures     87
West European Border Liberalization: Cooperation and Competition     91
The Charter Flight Take-Off     96
Acceleration of Seaside Development, 1957-1962     98
Tourism and thePolitics of Development, 1962-1969     105
The Ministry of Information and Tourism under Manuel Fraga     105
Tourism and the Development Plan     116
Extending Development     120
Domestic Infrastructure and Image Abroad     127
Touristic Consciousness     137
The Erosion of "Difference"     139
Reviving the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela     153
Diversification and Local Participation     155
Labor, Entrepreneurship, and Professionalization     159
Domestic Tourism     162
Disillusionment and Reorientation     169
Disillusionment     169
Reorientation     182
Tourism in Transition     187
Conclusion: Tourism and the European Challenge     191
Notes     197
Bibliography     249
Index     265