Streszczenie
Crisis of tourism, whose likelihood was accelerated by the attack on the 11th of September, afflicted mainly the United States – the country being the largest economic market, and the dominant one in international tourism. Yet it should be clearly notified that some activities conducted by extremely liberal American economy resulted in the following crisis in tourism. In the article authors consider if a travel market and especially consumers’ behaviours of this market depend on many economic, social and psychological factors which determine touristic activities much stronger than threat of international terrorism.