Geocoaching Adventure Lab–The Innovative Tool for Exploring and Creating Tourism Space
Geocoaching Adventure Lab–The Innovative Tool for Exploring and Creating Tourism Space

Summary/Abstract: In the context of changes in tourism traffic, due to the epidemiological situation, e-tools have gained in importance; the example is Geocaching Adventure Lab – a kind of field game that allows participants to explore and create a tourist space in an individual way. The goal of the paper is to identify the scale of geocaching tourism and the description of the Adventure Lab caches as an indispensable element of the development of new tourism, on the example of coastal areas of countries located in the south-eastern part of the Baltic. For this purpose, Internet query of caches was conducted and the obtained data was subjected to statistical description. Significant differences were found in terms of the degree of equipment of geocaching tourism space by caches and related with these tourist traffic in individual countries. The obtained results lead to the conclusion about the possibility of directing and controlling tourist traffic by means of a properly-prepared Adventure. The caches also meet the requirements for a tourist product.

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