HISTORICAL “PHENOMENON” OF CZECHOSLOVAK HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM AS AN EXAMPLE OF DEVELOPMENT OF HOTEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to analyze the process of hospitality infrastructure development in the First Republic, which at that time was represented by tourist cottages, mountain shelters (stations), private hotel and resort complexes. The authors also analyzed the influence of the hospitality industry on the formation of the Czechoslovak tourist movement, which became a peculiar “phenomenon” of the Czechoslovak society and was identified in the interwar period with the ideas of freedom, national patriotism and love of the native land and homeland. The methodology of the research is based on the ideological and theoretical principles of positivist historiography while carring out the research on the hotel and tourism industry development issue in Czechoslovakia. The above-mentioned approach made it possible to avoid subjective statements and conclusions regarding the research. The authors of the artilce used general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, systematicity, ISSN 2519-058Х (Print), ISSN 2664-2735 (Online) 157 Historical “Phenomenon” of Czechoslovak Hospitality and Tourism as an Example of Development... generalization, concreteness, historicism, and the dialectical method in order to solve scientific issues. The dialectical method has been used the most fully through the principles of historicism, therefore, during the research, the authors preferred historical methods: historical descriptive method (historical genetic, historical comparative, historical synthetic), historical diachronic, empirical analysis method, etc. The scientific novelty is that for the first time in domestic historiography, the historical process of formation and development of the field of hospitality and tourism has been analyzed on the example of the hotel and tourism industry development in Czechoslovakia during the interwar period (1918 – 1938). In the article there has been covered the process of tourist cottages, mountain “stations”, hotel and resort farms development comprehensively