The author has observed that books and publications about tourism usually need to begin by defining the concept, and that each definition given is slightly different from the next. From this observation, the author assumes ...

The second half of the 20lh C witnessed a dynamic development of tourism. Western European countries are, next to the United States, leaders of international tourism and have the best-developed system of integrated hotel ...

The discussion focuses on the notion of the world system of pilgrimage centres and the phenomenon of pilgrimage in the contemporary world. The authors emphasize the correlations among the centres, resulting from both their ...

The aim of this review is to present the development of the Polish geography of tourism, particularly its main research areas and greatest academic achievements of the last 70 years. In order to delimit the development ...

The article presents recent trends in the tourist economy in the Alpine region. With reference to the development cycle of the tourist product, proposed by Butler, the author claims that the Alpine tourist centres have ...

The author attempts to evaluate the take up of registered accommodation outlets in Lôdz between 1979 and 2000, on the basis of an analysis of changes in the number of guests, the number of accommodation outlets used, the ...