Controversial types of travel and the position of Polish tourism service providers: Experience tourism

• Authors: Grzegorz Godlewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of the Polish market for the development of the supply-side of controversial forms of tourism, based on the opinions and products offered by tour operators and retail travel agents. Analytical data were collected using desk research and CATI (N=107) methods. The most common controversial types of tourism include drug and sex tourism, followed by disaster tourism, medical tourism, slum tourism, fan tourism and poverty tourism. The expectations of customers regarding tourism offers usually focus on party tourism and extreme travel, and the providers highlight that this market segment will continue to develop.

Keywords

EN

travel market controversies; experience tourism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Turyzm
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 23-29

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Godlewski

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Department of Tourism and Recreation

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5860-1795

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0867-5856.29.2.03