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# Destination Dictatorship

## The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference

By Justin Crumbaugh
Subjects: Spanish Studies , Cultural Studies , Film Studies , Political Communication
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Paperback : 9781438426662, 173 pages, July 2010
Hardcover : 9781438426655, 173 pages, October 2009

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Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

# Description

When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly ballooned to astounding proportions. Throughout the 1960s, glossy images of high-rise hotels, crowded beaches, and blondes in bikinis flooded public space in Spain as the Franco regime showcased its success.

Justin Crumbaugh is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College.

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