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Tourism development was promoted and enabled not only by national
and provincial operators but also by private individuals, who had occasionally
played an important role at the very beginning; in Opatija, the Southern rail-
way company (Vienna–Trieste ), in Portorož the entrepreneurial local private
individuals, who founded the company and started to invest in health resorts.
An important role in further tourism development was, besides doctors, the
private initiative; private individuals were present either as owners of hotels
and accommodations or owners of sanatoria. Also, private individuals in Pos-
tojna were interested in investing in tourism infrastructure; some of them en-
deavoured to lease the cave. This did not happen and the cave remained pub-
licly owned, because the cave commission, as leading administrative body of
the cave, was managed by the district governorship.
Spare time
Modern tourism was also associated with the phenomenon of spare time and
with the possibilities for using it. In the industrial era, the expansion of tour-
ist offers was subject to economic-social changes, because the possibility of
travelling had gradually started to expand: from the narrow circle of members
who came from higher social classes, who had free time and financial resourc-
es at their disposal, to the upper middle class, that was looking for a break in
the summer resorts aspiring for more aristocratic habits. The possibility to
travel had expanded with the gradual increase of incomes to other classes of
the population; at first to the broader middle class (summer freshness) and
then to working class, that gave it a mass feature. It was, of course, a long-last-
ing process. Free time, the right for spending it and the right for a paid leave
were enforced only gradually in Europe, this applied also for the former Aus-
tro-Hungarian monarchy and later for Yugoslavia.5 For this reason, in the era
of modern tourism, we talk mainly about elite tourism, tourism for higher so-
cial classes, even though holidays, or rather, excursion tourism also reached
less wealthy social classes, that could afford this kind of holidays for a shorter
period of time. As the workdays were gradually shortened, people could take
part in other activities, and their improved financial resources enabled high-
er purchasing power (Kresal, 1998, 13), which was an important acquisition
for tourist activities, too. Modern tourism developed in the era of the mid-
dle class, which was gradually becoming an important factor in society. Be-
side the middle class, which began using tourist services, the working class
5 In former Yugoslavia, regular annual leaves were enforced gradually; the trade order from 1931
introduced the right to regular annual leave for senior supporting personnel (Kresal, 1998, 213).
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Tourism development was promoted and enabled not only by national
and provincial operators but also by private individuals, who had occasionally
played an important role at the very beginning; in Opatija, the Southern rail-
way company (Vienna–Trieste ), in Portorož the entrepreneurial local private
individuals, who founded the company and started to invest in health resorts.
An important role in further tourism development was, besides doctors, the
private initiative; private individuals were present either as owners of hotels
and accommodations or owners of sanatoria. Also, private individuals in Pos-
tojna were interested in investing in tourism infrastructure; some of them en-
deavoured to lease the cave. This did not happen and the cave remained pub-
licly owned, because the cave commission, as leading administrative body of
the cave, was managed by the district governorship.
Spare time
Modern tourism was also associated with the phenomenon of spare time and
with the possibilities for using it. In the industrial era, the expansion of tour-
ist offers was subject to economic-social changes, because the possibility of
travelling had gradually started to expand: from the narrow circle of members
who came from higher social classes, who had free time and financial resourc-
es at their disposal, to the upper middle class, that was looking for a break in
the summer resorts aspiring for more aristocratic habits. The possibility to
travel had expanded with the gradual increase of incomes to other classes of
the population; at first to the broader middle class (summer freshness) and
then to working class, that gave it a mass feature. It was, of course, a long-last-
ing process. Free time, the right for spending it and the right for a paid leave
were enforced only gradually in Europe, this applied also for the former Aus-
tro-Hungarian monarchy and later for Yugoslavia.5 For this reason, in the era
of modern tourism, we talk mainly about elite tourism, tourism for higher so-
cial classes, even though holidays, or rather, excursion tourism also reached
less wealthy social classes, that could afford this kind of holidays for a shorter
period of time. As the workdays were gradually shortened, people could take
part in other activities, and their improved financial resources enabled high-
er purchasing power (Kresal, 1998, 13), which was an important acquisition
for tourist activities, too. Modern tourism developed in the era of the mid-
dle class, which was gradually becoming an important factor in society. Be-
side the middle class, which began using tourist services, the working class
5 In former Yugoslavia, regular annual leaves were enforced gradually; the trade order from 1931
introduced the right to regular annual leave for senior supporting personnel (Kresal, 1998, 213).
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