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Itisparticularlyimportantthatoneoftheelementsofthefunctional,
socialandspatialtransformationsinpost-socialistcitiesisthedevelopment
oftourism,whichtheauthorswanttoproveinthisbook.Thedevelopment
ofthetouristfunctioninthecitiesofCentralandEasternEuropeafterthe
fallofsocialismhasbeendiscussedinscientificpublications(Coles2003;
YoungandKaczmarek2008,Cudny2012).Manyexamplesoftheroleof
tourisminthetransformationofpost-socialistcitieswerealsopresented
duringthe“21
stKnowledgeoftheCityConference:Thetouristfunctionof
cities.”ItwasheldattheGeographicalSciencesDepartment,Universityof
Lodz(Poland)in2008,anditsconclusionswerepresentedinalarge
publication,editedbyJażdżewska(2008).
Inthisbook,theauthorsfollowthisresearchtrendbypresentinga
widelyunderstoodroleoftourisminthetransformationofthepost-socialist
citiesofCentralandEasternEurope.Thepublicationisaninterdisciplinary
one(theauthorsareresearchersandpractitionersrepresentingdifferent
sciences,suchasgeographyandhistory).Itisalsoaninternational
publication,astheauthors,whoarespecialistsinsocio-economicgeography
andtourism,comefromfivedifferentcountries.Therefore,theyhopethat
theresearchresultspresentedherewillenlargetheknowledgeoftheroleof
tourisminthetransformationofpost-socialistcities.
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