From ‘Bricklaying’ to ‘Bricolage’: Transition and Tourism Development in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper aims briefly to review literature on tourism development in Central and Eastern Europe, to highlight major contemporary issues and to indicate future research needs and suggest a research agenda. It does this by addressing the EU enlargement context, conceptions and applications of ‘transition’, the ‘mobility turn’ and issues of identity within post-communist processes. It concludes with a proposed research agenda that emphasizes the need to interrogate a number of issues flowing from the policy neglect of tourism within the institutions of the EU.