Innovative Local Community Partnership and Sustainable Urban Tourism – The Old Town In Warsaw Cover Image

Innovative Local Community Partnership and Sustainable Urban Tourism – The Old Town In Warsaw
Innovative Local Community Partnership and Sustainable Urban Tourism – The Old Town In Warsaw

Author(s): Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka, Anna Ostrowska-Tryzno
Subject(s): Economy, Tourism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: historic cities; sustainable tourism; innovate partnership; local community

Summary/Abstract: It is a fact that in the past decades several of Polish towns and cities functioned aspopular tourist destinations, but heritage tourism and especially one of its segments –urban tourism – has grown significantly in recent years. As a result of socio-economictransformation, more income, higher levels of education, growing awareness of ourcountry, globalization process (access to EU) and better tourist infrastructure (transport,accommodation) now we can experience bigger tourists interest in our historic cities.Today especially Cracow and Warsaw have been visited by millions of tourists per year.Needless to say that the main attraction for tourists there are the historic centres of thesecities, the Old Town in Warsaw and the Old Town in Cracow.

  • Issue Year: 31/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 139-158
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English