Numerous archival funds, from administrative authorities and professional associations to periodicals, indirectly provide information about the development of the tourism industry. The most relevant of them is the documentation of the Chamber of CommerceDepartment for Tourism and the Cityof Belgrade Department for Press and Tourism. While the former Department provides information on tourism for the whole Kingdom of Yugoslavia area, the latterone is engaged in the establishment and development of tourist activities in Belgrade, most often in cooperation with our oldest travel agency Putnik. The opening of the Belgrade Fair in 1937 marked rapid evolvement of event tourism; regular spring and autumn fairs had 80,000 to 250,000 visitors in Belgrade from that period, which had approximately 300,000 inhabitants. Visiting international exhibitions organized by the Association CvijetaZuzorićand the Prince Paul's Museum attracted large number of visitors to Belgrade, and boosted cultural tourism to unsurpassed level,as well asactive international cooperation with all European countries. The Fair and the Museum, Cvijeta Zuzorićand Putnik, are the best representatives of the European and regional cooperation with Belgrade in the1930s. Tourism was taken into consideration by some great men, such as Miloš Crnjanskiand Milan Kašanin,in their own way. Short-term goal of this type of research of the funds of the Historical Archives of Belgrade is to prepare an exhibition about the development of tourism in Belgrade. Long-term goal is to encourage deliberation on the establishment of the Serbian/Belgrade TourismMuseum.

1. TOURISM IN BELGRADE BETWEEN
TWO WORLD WARS
based on documents of the Historical Archives of Belgrade
Snežana Lazić, curator archivist

2. HOTELS AND TRANSPORT
INFRASTRUCTURE
• 1936 Belgrade and Zemun had
23 hotels, 33 restaurants, 433
inns, 427 taverns
• 1884 constructed railway
Belgrade - Niš
• 1903 imported first car
• 1927 opened Belgrade Airport at
Bežanijska kosa
• in 1934 built the King Alexander
Chain Bridge

3. LEGISLATION AND EDUCATION
• 1914 issued Law on Resorts,
Mineral and Warm waters
• 1929 President of the
Municipality of the City of
Belgrade, Savčić implemented
Evidence books of travelers in
hotels
• 1936 Travel Policy, published
by the Ministry of Trade and
Industry, Department of
Tourism (July)
• Guideline on designating
towns of the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia as tourist places
(December 25)
• 1938 the Caterer Academy
opened in Belgrade (November
20)

4. ARCHIVALS ON DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN
BELGRADE
• CHAMBER OF COMMERCE in
BELGRADE (1910-1948)
• THE MUNICIPALITY OF BELGRADE
CITY (1839-1944)
• ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF ARTS
“CVIJETA ZUZORIĆ” (1922-1941)
• COLLECTION OF BOOKS, LIBRARY OF
THE ARCHIVES
• THE ADMINISTRATION OF BELGRADE
CITY (1839-1944)
• COLLECTION OF PHOTOS (1876- )
• GLAVINIĆ FAMILY FOND (1838-1987)
• RADOSLAV ŽUTKIĆ PERSONAL FOND
(1893-1943)
• COLLECTION OF PRINTWORKS OF
ŽIVKO М. JOVANOVIĆ (XIX-XX c.)
• MUSIC SECTION OF “JADRANSKA
STRAŽA” IN BELGRADE (1935-1937)

5. TOURISM PROPAGANDA GUIDES
• BELGRADE GUIDEBOOKS : Guide
throuhg Belgrade with map, ed. Đorđe
Bugarski, Petar Hajduković, 1896; Belgrade
guidebook, 1927; N. V. Kusaković,
Belgradethrough (with new map of
Belgrade) 1932; Belgrade par Miloš
Crnjanski, Belgrade, Bureau central de
Presse, 1936; M. Crnjanski, Our beaches
over Adriatic Sea, Adriatic Guard, 1927;
• PUTNIK AGENCY , founded in 1923, as
corporation, had its own Publishing
Department since 1933: established its own
photo archive,organized exibitions on
tourism in Viceroyalty centers and abroad,
prepared numerous print publications,
made color film on travellling Yogoslavia –
a country of contrasts, cooperated with
Radio Belgrade etc.

6. TOURISM PROPAGANDA GUIDES
• THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE
CITY OF BELGRADE PRESS
AND TOURISM DEPARTMENT
established implementation of
numerous tasks of tourist
propaganda: supplied tourist
literature, had its own photo lab,
printed articles about tourism in
Belgrade, municipal newspapers and
supplied foreign journalists and
travelers with generally required
information regarding Belgrade;
during the 30s prepared a poster of
Belgrade and propaganda film, the
album of Belgrade city and
representative publications of
Belgrade in cooperation with the
Institute for Balkan Studies

7. EVENT TOURISM
• Opening ceremony of the
Belgrade Fair in 1937 marked
rapid envolvement of event
tourism; regular spring and
autumn fairs had 80.000 to
250.000 visitors in Belgrade
which had approximately
300.000 inhabitantsin in 1941
• the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
participated in many
international fairs and
exhibitions with following
content-generally an exhibition
on tourism.
• the establishment of the Fair
provided outstanding incentive to
the development of tourism in
Belgrade
• In the period between the two
world wars, Belgrade also hosts
numerous international
conferences

8. CULTURAL TOURISM
• Association of Friends of Art
“Cvijeta Zuzorić” continually
worked on the presentation of
foreign arts to the Belgrade
audience. It also organized two
tourist exhibition at the Pavilion
in 1930 and 1932
• the Museum of Prince Pavle is to
be, to date, the most visited so
established blossom of cultural
tourism. The most visited
exhibition of Italian portraits in
1938 saw more than 80.000
visitors
• Milan Kašanin
• Marija Ilić Agapova

9. OTHER FORMS OF TOURISM
Resort tourism: Vrnjci in 30s Hiking tourism: Avala in 30s
Resort of “Jadranska straža” in Martinšćica near Sušak

10. “CONTEMPORARIES” ON TOURISM
• Цирил Жижек, PhD, “Развој туризма”, Јубиларни зборник живота и рада
СХС 1918-1928, pp. 575-578.
• Војислав Јанић, PhD, “Развој туризма у Југославији”, Јубиларна књига
Државних железница Краљевине Југославије 1919-1929, Belgrade 1929, pp.
403-418.
• Три године владе г. Д-р Милана М. Стојадиновића, ed. Central Pressbiro of
Ministry Council Presidency, Belgrade 1938, pp. 31-38.
• ИАБ, лични фонд Р. Жуткића, Елаборат г. Радослава Жуткића “По питању
туризма”
• Слободан Ж. Видаковић, “Значај туризма за Београд и наше градове”,
БОН, vol. 12, December 1936, pp. 862-875.
• Драг. Ј. Ранковић, “За унапређење туризма у Београду”, БОН, vol. 7-8, July-
August 1938, pp. 508-510.
• First National Encyclopedia of Prof. Stanojević ittended to include Tourism as
item
• Reports of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Statistics
• Published editions of Putnik Agency
• Periodical issues: Политика, Новости, Време, Илустровано време,
недељне илустрације, Југославија у речи и слици, Revue on tourism, traffic
and sport

11. INDIVIDUAL TRIP