Sun, sea and civil war. (tourist trade declines in Yugoslavia)

Economist (US), The, June, 1991

"YUGOSLAVIA is a large oasis of hospitality and repose," wrote Miloje Popovic, the central government's man in charge of tourism, in a book last year. He is still an optimist, but now he puts it a bit differently. He cannot, he says, give a "strict assessment" of the security of tourists, because the situation changes from day to day, "but especially in areas where there are no rebellions, shootings or bombings, things are all right."

Things certainly look all right in Split, the ancient Dalmatian port whose potential was first recognised by the Roman emperor Diocletian in 305AD. Tired of trying to hold a fractious empire together, he retired there to grow cabbages. Today cafes and restaurants are pleasantly free of noisy foreign tourists and the ancient...

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