Tourism in the 20's

Tourism was already well developed in 1920’s Berlin. When Bang, the Dane who wanted to open a bar in Berlin, first met Geza, the hungarian journalist, the later asked him, sarcastic :

"So you are a tourist ? One of those they take on Thien's the open buses to show them the Brandenburg Gate, the Tiergarten, Potsdam and its peerless baroque palace?"

"Don’t you see he's not a tourist ?" Paul said. "Bang is an intelligent person and tourism is by definition a silly activity."

"And useless," adds Heinz. "In your village you will reach the universal, Tolstoy knew it already."

"Tolstoy, and I. You forget that I was a tourist guide," says Geza.

"And, mind you, when he had just arrived from Budapest, when he did not know the difference between Alexanderplatz and Potsdamerplatz," Paul explains.

Excerpt from the novel "Berlin-Expo" available on Amazon.fr