Coastal Tourism in Southern Europe in the XXth century

Patrizia Battilani is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bologna, Italy.Her primary research interests are the history of culture and tourism with applicationsin the field of participatory tourism planning, enhancement of UNESCOworld heritage sites and European cultural routes, as well as business history witha focus on social enterprises. Currently she has the scientific responsibility for theBologna unit of the Interreg Italy-Croatia Recolor (Reviving and EnhanCing artwOrksand Landscapes Of the adRiatic) and she is part of the research team of RurAllure(Horizon 2020), FabRoutes (Erasmus+), Mistral (Interreg Med). She is also part or theresearch team for the Spanish project HAR2017-82679-C2-1-P.Carlos Larrinaga is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Granada(Andalusia, Spain). His research is in the history of tourism, railways in the 19thcentury and the service sector. He is currently leading an interdisciplinary project onthe history of tourism in Spain and Italy in the twentieth century, funded by the SpanishMinistry of Science and Innovation and ERDF (HAR2017-82679-C2-1-P project).He has undertaken research in several stays at Bordeaux-Montaigne University andat Aberystwyth University.

• About the Authors – Introduction – Annunziata Berrino: Sustainability in tourism in Italy in post-World War II – Patrizia Battilani/Donatella Strangio: Mass tourism and social sustainability: Insights from the Italian and French coasts – Bertram M. Gordon: "Sous les pavés, la plage": Sun, sand, and surf in French tourism – The evolution of an image – Julie Manfredini: Transformations of tourism. On the French Riviera since the 1950s – Carlos Larrinaga: Spain after the Civil War (1936–1939). The new possibilities for maritime and coastal tourism – Marta Luque/Víctor M. Heredia: Pioneering projects in the tourism development of the Costa del Sol (Spain) – Margarita Dritsas: "White Flowers" of the Aegean. Would Le Corbusier use the same expression today? – Petra Kavrečič/Metod Šuligoj: "Socialist-style tourist accommodation" – Tomi Brezovec/Aleksandra Brezovec: Yugoslavia awaits you: post WW2 tourism promotion of the Yugoslav coast