The exhibition ‘On Revolution Roads: Memorial tourism in Yugoslavia,’ examines the position and function of memorial national liberation struggle (NLS) in the tourist segment of the economic and socio-economic system of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
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The introduction of memorial tourism as a part of the overall SFRY tourist scheme/industry from the late seventies and early eighties of the 20th century to the present day is an under-researched phenomenon of the post-war development of Yugoslavian tourism. The inauguration of NLS memorials as a tourism product and the consequent commercialization of the symbolic and historical-political dimension of NLS cultural heritage impacted the mechanisms of managing existing monuments and the concepts of building new NLS memorials, as well as the methods of their financing. The term memorial tourism is taken with a certain grain of salt, since this statement implicitly emphasizes the commercial functions as the main characteristic of memorial areas and NLS facilities in Yugoslavia, which to some extent ignores the complexity of the historical and political significance and symbolic and socio-economic function of NLS memorials.
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