Cannabis indica as a motivation for foreign travel by Polish citizens

• Authors: Andrzej Matczak , Przemysław Pawlicki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based on an anonymous on-line questionnaire survey, conducted among 1000 respondents, the authors present their demographic, socio-economic and spatial profile, their attitude to cannabis and the tourist trips they went on (scale, directions, destinations), involving cannabis consumption. Tourist trips of this kind were attractive to quite a large number of young people, mostly inhabiting large Polish cities, who usually had used and continued to use this drug. Trips inspired by cannabis were most often made to the nearby Czech Republic and Netherlands, as well as (less frequently) to Spain.

Keywords

EN

trips abroad; cannabis indica consumption; drugs; Polish citizens

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Turyzm
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 49-56

Dates

published

2016-12-30

Contributors

author

Andrzej Matczak

• University of Lodz, Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism Studies, Department of Geography of Hospitality

author

Przemysław Pawlicki

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/tour-2016-0013