Et lykkeligt fornufts gteskab? Turistforeningen for Danmark mellem hjemstavnsturisme og eksportturisme ca. 1888-1967

Artiklen baserer sig p unders gelser af Turistforeningen for Danmarks virke med hovedv gt p perioden 1923-1945. Neds ttelsen af Udenrigsministeriets Udvalg for Turistpropaganda i Udlandet" i 1934 bet d en gennemgribende forandring, hvor staten for f rste gang involverede sig aktivt i Turistforeningens organisation og arbejde. Turisme blev herved i h jere grad opfattet som et eksporterhverv og indrettet efter sit konomiske indtjeningspotentiale. Hermed lagdes grunden til den organisation og den turismeopfattelse, som kom til at dominere efterkrigstidens danske turisme, mens tidligere, konkurrerende syn p turismen p sigt marginaliseredes. En gennemgang af Turistforeningens brochurer og udgivelser vil i vrigt demonstrere, at Danmark som turistland" repr senteredes i meget forskellige og konkurrerende diskurser, lige fra en hjemstavnsorientering med v gt p oldtid, landskaber og landbokultur til det moderne Danmark" med levende byliv, uh jtidelig harmoni, ungdommelighed og social ansvarlighed. Overordnet bet d mellemkrigstiden b de i organisation og repr sentation en forskydning af turistarbejdet fra provinsens lokale, folkelige forankring til byernes, prim rt k benhavnske, erhvervsinteresser. : A Happy Marriage of Convenience? The Danish National Tourist Organization c.1888-1967 Turistforeningen for Danmark was the Danish National Tourist Organization from 1923-1967. It replaced Den danske Turistforening which dissolved in the turmoil following World War I, and was itself replaced in 1967 by Danmarks Turistr d. This article offers an outline of the development of Turistforeningen for Danmark with a main focus on the interwar-period 1923-1939. Through an analysis of the organization's activities to attract foreign visitors as well as to enhance"the travel of Danes within their own country it is shown, how two distinct understandings of tourism" co-existed, and was balanced against each other, within the organization. Commercial interests, primarily based in Copenhagen and the larger tourist destinations, saw tourism as an economic activity and an exporting trade" to be exploited in an ever-increasing international tourism market. On the other hand were the more than 100 local tourist associations, to a large degree non-commercial, which saw tourism as an educational or ideal" activity, meaning cultural and educational where visiting scenery, prehistoric sites, historic town centres and seeing local customs should teach locals and visitors alike about the region and the nation at large. The basic partnership between commercial interests and local