This paper discusses some problems of tourism-oriented land use on the barrier coasts of Poland. It describes its environmental attributes (land- forms, drift deposits, hydrology, soils, vegetation) as factors exerting an ...

The author describes the theological significance of sacred sites whose primary function is as a cult, not a cultural site. He stresses the educational role of tourism as regards culture and religion while a tourism ...

The authors present a comparative analysis of the relation between the concepts of tourism and recreation in the context of leisure time and also the spaces in which they occur. A review of many publications in Polish, ...

The 15-year long period of socio-economic transformation in Poland has seen a dramatic development in coastal tourism. This paper, based on investigations conducted between 1989 and 2004, analyses tourism-related changes ...

The article presents both current and prospective tourism development in mountain areas. The author pays particular attention to the spatial concentration of tourism, its seasonality, transport problems and activities ...

Artykuł porusza kwestię wyzwania, przed którym stoi obecnie turyzm genealogiczny w hrabstwie Galway, położonym na zachodnim wybrzeżu Irlandii. W skondensowanej formie prezentuje on rezultaty badań terenowych, w których ...

Traces of the postmodernist approach in geography can also be found in tourism geography. The ambiguity of the term ‘tourism', differing tourist behaviours and motivations etc., as well as the methodological weakness in ...

The tourism industry in Poland has experienced dramatlc development at the beginning of the 21st c. Large cities have seen in-depth changes, both spatial and functional, from the impact of tourism. As one of Poland's most ...

Although it is among the most frequently used notions in the study of tourism, the concept of tourism space is understood in a variety of ways. Similar to the term ‘geographical space’, it is often used intuitively, often ...

The article concerns the Nałęczów tourist guidebooks published at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Those guidebooks constitute a substantial part of the literature connected with the Nałęczów spa resort, especially ...