Czas wolny a zmiany na rynku turystycznym

Abstract

Leisure time is a prerequisite for participation in tourism. However, the impact of leisure time on the tourist services market is much bigger. Namely, it affects primarily consumer behaviour which reflects changes in the perception, importance, price and division of leisure time. This article’s goal is to analyse the role of leisure time (in a demand-related approach) in determining tourism (present and in the future). Consideration on free time and its perception in the society are concluded with a projection of future tourism services. The main changes in tourism caused by changes of leisure are: a transformation from serviceoriented economy to experience-oriented economy, compression of time and space, withdrawal from synchronization resulting from the so-called “third wave”, departure from a traditionally construed idealistic „traveller” towards the notion of the „tourist”, chameleon behaviour and prosumers form as a category of consumers in the tourist market. The article is of a theoretical nature with studies of literature on the subject as the adopted research method.