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velopment was, besides doctors, private initiative; private individuals were
present either as owners of hotels and accommodations or owners of sanato-
ria. Also, private individuals in Postojna were interested in investing in tour-
ism infrastructure, some of them endeavoured to lease the cave. This did not
happen and the cave remained publicly owned, because the caves commissi-
on, as leading administrative body of the cave, was managed by the district
governorship.
Free time
Modern tourism was also associated with the phenomenon of free time. It is
one of the possibilities of its utilization. In the industrial era, the expansion
of tourism offers depended on changes in economic-social level, because the
possibility of travelling had gradually started to expand: from the narrow cir-
cle of members who came from higher social classes, who had free time and
financial resources at their disposal, to wealthier citizens, who were looking
for a break in summer resorts and modelled oneself on aristocratic habits. The
possibility to travel had expanded with the gradual increase of incomes to
other classes of the population; at first to a broad middle class (summer fresh-
ness), then to working class, thus it attained a mass characteristic. It was of
course a long-lasting process. Free time, rights for its spending and rights for
a paid leave was enforced only gradually in Europe, this applied also for for-
mer Austro-Hungarian monarchy and for later Yugoslavia.5 For this reason,
in the area of modern tourism, we talk mainly about elite tourism, tourism of
higher social classes, even though holidays, or rather, excursion tourism had
reached less wealthy social classes, who could afford this kind of holidays for
a shorter period of time. As the workdays were gradually shortened, people
could take part in other activities, and their improved material status enabled
higher purchasing power (Kresal, 1998, 13), which was an important acqui-
sition for tourist activity too. Modern tourism developed in the bourgeoisie
era, which was becoming an even more important factor in the society. Beside
the bourgeoisie, which began to use tourist services, the working class was
growing. The latter was gradually gaining social protection, the right to paid
leave6 and it had, since the second half of the last century, become the benefi-
ciary of tourism services.
5 In former Yugoslavia, regular annual leaves were enforced gradually; the trade order from 1931
introduced the right to regular annual leave for senior supporting personnel (Kresal, 1998, 213).
6 In Slovenian provinces in the Austrian part of the monarchy the proportion of employees in craft
and in industry was growing from the end of the 60s in the 19th century, year 1910 (Fischer, 2005).
Fischer had analysed the data on the basis of the Austrian statistics for censuses in 1869, 1880, 1890,
1900 and 1910.
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velopment was, besides doctors, private initiative; private individuals were
present either as owners of hotels and accommodations or owners of sanato-
ria. Also, private individuals in Postojna were interested in investing in tour-
ism infrastructure, some of them endeavoured to lease the cave. This did not
happen and the cave remained publicly owned, because the caves commissi-
on, as leading administrative body of the cave, was managed by the district
governorship.
Free time
Modern tourism was also associated with the phenomenon of free time. It is
one of the possibilities of its utilization. In the industrial era, the expansion
of tourism offers depended on changes in economic-social level, because the
possibility of travelling had gradually started to expand: from the narrow cir-
cle of members who came from higher social classes, who had free time and
financial resources at their disposal, to wealthier citizens, who were looking
for a break in summer resorts and modelled oneself on aristocratic habits. The
possibility to travel had expanded with the gradual increase of incomes to
other classes of the population; at first to a broad middle class (summer fresh-
ness), then to working class, thus it attained a mass characteristic. It was of
course a long-lasting process. Free time, rights for its spending and rights for
a paid leave was enforced only gradually in Europe, this applied also for for-
mer Austro-Hungarian monarchy and for later Yugoslavia.5 For this reason,
in the area of modern tourism, we talk mainly about elite tourism, tourism of
higher social classes, even though holidays, or rather, excursion tourism had
reached less wealthy social classes, who could afford this kind of holidays for
a shorter period of time. As the workdays were gradually shortened, people
could take part in other activities, and their improved material status enabled
higher purchasing power (Kresal, 1998, 13), which was an important acqui-
sition for tourist activity too. Modern tourism developed in the bourgeoisie
era, which was becoming an even more important factor in the society. Beside
the bourgeoisie, which began to use tourist services, the working class was
growing. The latter was gradually gaining social protection, the right to paid
leave6 and it had, since the second half of the last century, become the benefi-
ciary of tourism services.
5 In former Yugoslavia, regular annual leaves were enforced gradually; the trade order from 1931
introduced the right to regular annual leave for senior supporting personnel (Kresal, 1998, 213).
6 In Slovenian provinces in the Austrian part of the monarchy the proportion of employees in craft
and in industry was growing from the end of the 60s in the 19th century, year 1910 (Fischer, 2005).
Fischer had analysed the data on the basis of the Austrian statistics for censuses in 1869, 1880, 1890,
1900 and 1910.
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