This chapter sketches classical geopolitical (de)constructions of CEE and the role of tourism as a reflection of changing ideological environments. It looks at Cold War geopolitics and state socialist tourism, as well as the post-communist transformation.

This chapter summarizes the book's contributions on the numerous facets of the tourism-geopolitics nexus in Central and Eastern Europe. A wide range of themes and frameworks for further research are identified.

This book examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe. The main sections of the book pursue the overlapping and interrelated themes of: (1) reconfiguring conceptions and reality, where tourism is set within...

This chapter explores, from a largely Polish perspective, some of the geopolitical dimensions and tensions of elite footballer mobilities. The chapter draws on the concepts of core-periphery relationships and semi-colonialism to address the nature and significance of asymmetrical flows from...

This chapter combines the lens of geopolitics with the concepts of strategic coupling and path dependence to explain the inability of regional and local institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to facilitate adequately the expansion of international hotel groups into the CEE region in the...

Focusing on the UK travel firm Regent Holidays, this chapter exemplifies some of the geopolitics behind the role of a select few Western tour companies who, operating on the periphery of business logic, managed to open doors into Central and Eastern Europe and influence Western tourists'...

This chapter examines how tourists have sought to disengage from the events of the migrant crisis by finding ways to avoid the spaces of the migrant, leading to the geopolitics of erasure. The chapter is organized as follows. First, it reviews some aspects of tourism and critical geopolitics. Next, ...