Adventure Tourism in the Surveyed Polish Adventure Tourists' Opinion - Outline of the Problem



Abstract

Tourism is a kind of human activity, which has the ability to simultaneously satisfy a wide human needs' range and develop people's personality. Adventure tourism term is a type of tourism able to fulfill these types of human needs. The aim of the study was to know the Polish tourists opinion about the adventure tourism in Poland. The study involved 50 people, taking into account their gender, age, education and occupational status. The research tool was a survey questionnaire. The study indicated that it is not a popular form of tourism in Poland. Its proponents, the information about places and facilities derive mainly from the Internet. The most popular forms are trekking, tramping, caves exploration, paintball, windsurfing, bungejumping and rafting. Rather average possibility of practicing the adventure tourism in Poland is associated with multitude barriers, mainly financial investments, lack of free time, as well as fear and general fear of some of its forms.

Keywords

Tourism; Tourism research; Touristic travel

Adventure Tourism Market Report. 2010. The George Washington University School of Business, The Adventure Travel Trade Association and Xola Consulting, Washington.

Backley R., 2006. Adventure Tourism. CABI, Cambridge, MA.

Brzozowski J., 2008. Turystyka i sport ważnymi czynnikami kształtującymi zdrowy styl życia. W: Współczesne tendencje w rekreacji i turystyce. Red. W. Siwiński, R.D. Tauber, E. Mucha-Szajek. Wyd. Nauk. Bogucki, Poznań.

Czerwiński J., 2006. Turystyka. Wybrane zagadnienia. PZWS, Wałbrzych.

Fennell D.A., 2000. Ecotourism. An introduction. Routledge, London & New York.

Łobożewicz T., 1996. Turystyka kwalifikowana. Wyd. PTTK, Warszawa.

Przedsiębiorczość w turystyce. Zasady i praktyka. 2010. Red. M. Bednarczyk. CeDeWu, Warszawa.

www.klubpodroznikow.com - forum [dostęp: 15.09.2014].

Published : 2014-12-31


Cieślik, E., Siembida, A., Kościej, A., & Górecki, A. (2014). Adventure Tourism in the Surveyed Polish Adventure Tourists’ Opinion - Outline of the Problem. Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, 34(4), 53-67. Retrieved from http://www1.up.poznan.pl/jard/index.php/jard/article/view/463

Ewa Cieślik 
Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie  Poland
Agnieszka Siembida  agnieszka153@op.pl
Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie  Poland
Anna Kościej 
Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie  Poland
Adam Górecki 
Górnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa w Katowicach  Poland


CitedBy Crossref
0

CitedBy Scopus
0


Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.