SLOVENSKI IZSELJENCI IN TURISTIČNI OBISK DRAVSKE BANOVINE S POSEBNIM POUDARKOM NA POROČANJU IZSELJENIŠKEGA VESTNIKA.

SLOVENIAN EMIGRANTS AND TOURIST VISITS TO THE DRAVA BANOVINA ACCORDING TO THE REPORTS IN THE JOURNAL »IZSELJENIŠKI VESTNIK«.
VISITE TURISTICHE DEGLI EMIGRATI SLOVENI NELLA BANOVINA DI DRAVA COME RIPORTATE SUL GIORNALE »IZSELJENIŠKI VESTNIK«.

Until the beginning of the 1920s, the visits of Slovenian emigrants and their descendants to their former homeland took place predominantly on the individual level. Visits from European countries (such as Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands), where a considerable part of Slovenian emigrant communities was located, became more organized in the mid-1920s. Emigrant priests and teachers from the various Catholic organizations which operated among the emigrant communities have played an important role in the planning, coordination and guidance of such excursions. Emigrants preferred to travel to their former homeland with an organized group due to the lenient procedure in arranging travel documents, favorable prices of transport and the journey itself, as it had included a specially prepared itinerary and represented a unique social event for the participants, contributing to the preservation of their ethnic identity. The organizers occasionally prepared an independent holiday with the educational program for the emigrant children (holiday colonies). In the interwar period, emigrants who lived in the North American and other non-European countries were facing several problems when traveling to the former homeland. Due to the geographical distance, their journeys included transcontinental travel with a shipping company and were therefore long and financially challenging. Several travel agencies were established among the Slovenian communities in Cleveland and New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although their service mostly focused on the sale of tickets for major shipping companies, they later began organizing group trips to the area of Slovenian ethnic territory. Emigrant visitors often combined these trips with a visit to the European capitals; therefore such excursions usually lasted several weeks and have with time acquired a »tourist« connotation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'articolo tratta le visite degli emigrati Sloveni e dei loro discendenti nel paese d'origine, nel periodo tra le due Guerre mondiali. Negli anni venti e trenta del novecento il fenomeno delle visite degli emigrati provenienti dai paesi europei ed in seguito anche dagli Stati Uniti diventò in gran parte organizzato ed ricevé una considerevole attenzione da parte del governo del Regno di Jugoslavia. Le visite da parte degli emigrati Sloveni provenienti dai vari stati europei furono di solito organizzate dalle associazioni cattoliche e dai leader religiosi, le visite dagli Stati Uniti invece furono generalmente svolte dai rappresentanti delle organizzazioni di sostegno o dalle agenzie di viaggio, che in questo periodo operarono con successo tra la comunità degli emigrati sloveno-americana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prispevek obravnava obiske slovenskih izseljencev in njihovih potomcev v nekdanji domovini v obdobju med obema vojnama. V dvajsetih letih preteklega stoletja je obiskovanje slovenskih izseljencev iz evropskih držav, kasneje pa tudi iz Združenih držav Amerike, postalo v veliki meri organizirano in je bilo v Kraljevini Jugoslaviji deležno precejšnje pozornosti takratnih oblasti. Izleti slovenskih izseljencev iz evropskih držav so bili najpogosteje organizirani s strani katoliških društev in verskih voditeljev, obiske iz Združenih držav Amerike pa so praviloma vodili predstavniki posameznih podpornih organizacij ali uslužbenci potovalnih uradov, ki so v tem obdobju uspešno delovali znotraj tedanje slovensko-ameriške izseljenske skupnosti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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