TOURISM IN BELGRADE BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS

based on documents of the Historical Archives of Belgrade

Snežana Lazić, curator archivist

HOTELS AND TRANSPORTINFRASTRUCTURE

• 1936 Belgrade and Zemun had

23 hotels, 33 restaurants, 433

inns, 427 taverns

• 1884 constructed railway

Belgrade - Niš

• 1903 imported first car

• 1927 opened Belgrade Airport

at Bežanijska kosa

• in 1934 built the King

Alexander Chain Bridge

LEGISLATION AND EDUCATION

• 1914 issued Law on Resorts, Mineral and Warm waters

• 1929 President of the Municipality of the City of Belgrade, Savčić implemented Evidence books of travelers in hotels

• 1936 Travel Policy, published by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Department of Tourism (July)

• Guideline on designating towns of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as tourist places (December 25)

• 1938 the Caterer Academy opened in Belgrade (November 20)

ARCHIVALS ON DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN BELGRADE

• CHAMBER OF COMMERCE in BELGRADE (1910-1948)

• THE MUNICIPALITY OF BELGRADE CITY (1839-1944)

• ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF ARTS “CVIJETA ZUZORIĆ” (1922-1941)

• COLLECTION OF BOOKS, LIBRARY OF THE ARCHIVES

• THE ADMINISTRATION OF BELGRADE CITY (1839-1944)

• COLLECTION OF PHOTOS (1876- )• GLAVINIĆ FAMILY FOND (1838-

1987)• RADOSLAV ŽUTKIĆ PERSONAL

FOND (1893-1943)• COLLECTION OF PRINTWORKS OF

ŽIVKO М. JOVANOVIĆ (XIX-XX c.)• MUSIC SECTION OF “JADRANSKA

STRAŽA” IN BELGRADE (1935-1937)

TOURISM PROPAGANDA GUIDES

• BELGRADE GUIDEBOOKS : Guide throuhg Belgrade with map, ed. Đorđe Bugarski, Petar Hajduković, 1896; Belgrade guidebook, 1927; N. V. Kusaković, Belgradethrough (with new map of Belgrade) 1932; Belgrade par Miloš Crnjanski, Belgrade, Bureau central de Presse, 1936; M. Crnjanski, Our beaches over Adriatic Sea, Adriatic Guard, 1927;

• PUTNIK AGENCY , founded in 1923, as corporation, had its own Publishing Department since 1933: established its own photo archive,organized exibitions on tourism in Viceroyalty centers and abroad, prepared numerous print publications, made color film on travellling Yogoslavia – a country of contrasts, cooperated with Radio Belgrade etc.

TOURISM PROPAGANDA GUIDES

• THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE CITY OF BELGRADE PRESS AND TOURISM DEPARTMENT

established implementation of

numerous tasks of tourist propaganda: supplied tourist literature, had its own photo lab, printed articles about tourism in Belgrade, municipal newspapers and supplied foreign journalists and travelers with generally required information regarding Belgrade; during the 30s prepared a poster of Belgrade and propaganda film, the album of Belgrade city and representative publications of Belgrade in cooperation with the Institute for Balkan Studies

EVENT TOURISM

• Opening ceremony of the Belgrade Fair in 1937 marked rapid envolvement of event tourism; regular spring and autumn fairs had 80.000 to 250.000 visitors in Belgrade which had approximately 300.000 inhabitantsin in 1941

• the Kingdom of Yugoslavia participated in many international fairs and exhibitions with following content-generally an exhibition on tourism.

• the establishment of the Fair provided outstanding incentive to the development of tourism in Belgrade

• In the period between the two world wars, Belgrade also hosts numerous international conferences

CULTURAL TOURISM

• Association of Friends of Art “Cvijeta Zuzorić” continually worked on the presentation of foreign arts to the Belgrade audience. It also organized two tourist exhibition at the Pavilion in 1930 and 1932

• the Museum of Prince Pavle is to be, to date, the most visited so established blossom of cultural tourism. The most visited exhibition of Italian portraits in 1938 saw more than 80.000 visitors

• Milan Kašanin• Marija Ilić Agapova

OTHER FORMS OF TOURISM

Resort tourism: Vrnjci in 30s Hiking tourism: Avala in 30s

Resort of “Jadranska straža” in Martinšćica near Sušak

“CONTEMPORARIES” ON TOURISM

• Цирил Жижек, PhD, “Развој туризма”, Јубиларни зборник живота и рада СХС 1918-1928, pp. 575-578.

• Војислав Јанић, PhD, “Развој туризма у Југославији”, Јубиларна књига Државних железница Краљевине Југославије 1919-1929, Belgrade 1929, pp. 403-418.

• Три године владе г. Д-р Милана М. Стојадиновића, ed. Central Pressbiro of Ministry Council Presidency, Belgrade 1938, pp. 31-38.

• ИАБ, лични фонд Р. Жуткића, Елаборат г. Радослава Жуткића “По питању туризма”

• Слободан Ж. Видаковић, “Значај туризма за Београд и наше градове”, БОН, vol. 12, December 1936, pp. 862-875.

• Драг. Ј. Ранковић, “За унапређење туризма у Београду”, БОН, vol. 7-8, July-August 1938, pp. 508-510.

• First National Encyclopedia of Prof. Stanojević ittended to include Tourism as item

• Reports of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Statistics• Published editions of Putnik Agency• Periodical issues: Политика, Новости, Време, Илустровано

време, недељне илустрације, Југославија у речи и слици, Revue on tourism, traffic and sport

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