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This chapter explores the question of how tourism contributed to global order and conflict from the end of World War II to the early twenty-first century. It begins by looking at how political regimes of the interwar period attempted to politicize tourism. After World War II, ideas about tourism as a vehicle for both individual emancipation and mutual understanding among peoples inspired considerable technocratic planning under the aegis of postwar reconstruction. This process contributed to the consolidation of a Western bloc of nations, particularly in Western Europe, and to spectacles of modernization across much of the globe. It also contributed to the rise of a global ideology of free movement, which has posed particular challenges to regimes in the democratic, socialist, and postcolonial worlds. |
