„OSTMARK“ A PROTEKTORÁT JAKO DESTINACE ŘÍŠSKÉHO CESTOVNÍHO RUCHU
OSTMARK AND PROTECTORATE BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA AS DESTINATIONS OF A  REICH TOURISM

Summary/Abstract: From a point of view of a tourism, the organisational and administrative development proceeded in the same or similar way, when the Reich laws actually broadened their territorial scope. The same problems appeared in Ostmark (Austria) as well as in Protectorate in the tourist industry, Ostmark and Protectorate had an ambiguous value for the Reich in this respect. On one hand, there was an effort to limit the “ free” movement whether it concerned the Protectorate or Reich citizens including foreigners, on the other hand, there were obvious endeavours of the Reich and Protectorate authorities to support the “Protectorate” and “Reich” tourism as an ideological, political and social-medical tool. From this point of view, Ostmark and Protectorate represented a not negligible asset, they drained the funds from both Germans and Protectorate as well as foreign citizens, they enlarged the attraction perimeter of the Reich and, at the same time, they enabled the full integration into the Reich, including the institutional and organisational aspect. Both Protectorate and Ostmark also meant a considerable increase in accommodation and catering capacities of the Reich tourist industry; both regions, therefore, to a certain extent, worked as an absorption bumper between East (frontline) and West (the very territory of the Reich). The existing infrastructure of the tourist industry was used for military and other purposes and goals.

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