Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
1910
D
B
öR
?
?
W
Nö
S
uR
CH
T
GENERAL LEGEND
Arrivals in million:
St
Kr
0.1 0.5 1
2 2.5
0.25
0
200 km
Fig. 6.1.
Tourist flows, 1910.
tourism in Central Europe were the German
Empire (D in Fig. 6.1) and the Austrian part of
the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (öR).
Within these empires the large cities and the
other urbanized and industrialized areas stood
out: in the German Empire mainly Berlin and
highly industrialized Saxony; in the Austrian
part of the Habsburg Empire the capital Vienna
(W) was the source of about half of the tourists.
The second half came for the most part from the
industrialized provinces of Bohemia (B) (mainly
from Prague), Moravia and Silesia. The rela-
tively small flow of tourists from the Hungarian
part of the Monarchy (uR) originated mainly
from Budapest.
One of the flows from the German Empire
was directed to the Austrian Alpine provinces of
Tyrol (T), Salzburg (S) and Vorarlberg; a sec-
ond, somewhat smaller one, to Bohemia, above
all to the Western Bohemian spas of Carlsbad
(Karlovy Vary), Marienbad (Mariánské Lázne)
and Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázn
f
).
Among the flows originating from Vienna,
only very weak ones were directed to regions
outside the Austrian part of the Empire, and also
to regions outside of present-day Austria. Just
like the West Bohemian spas, the 'Austrian
Riviera' of Abazzia (Opatija), Istria (Istra) and
Grado played a major role (see also Jordan,
1998). The Hungarian part of the Empire, for
example,
received
only
a
few
guests
from
Vienna.
Tourists from the Czech lands distributed
themselves fairly equally over all Austrian
provinces south of them. Germans from the
Sudeten were numerous in the Alpine regions.
For the rather small flow from the less urbanized
Hungarian part of the dual Monarchy the num-
erous spas, the Tatra Mountains, Lake Balaton
and the Croatian Coastland, all within the
Hungarian part of the Monarchy, were prefer-
red destinations. The few travels of Hungarians
beyond their own part of the Monarchy were
directed mainly to the eastern Alpine regions, to
the Bohemian spas, to Vienna and also to the
Austrian Riviera (Jordan, 1992a).
Tourist flows in the inter-war period
After participation in tourism had expanded to
wider social strata, the summer season and
bathing had gained importance and the auto-
mobile had become another important means
