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Edukacja ekologiczna w obszarach recepcji turystycznej na rzecz kształtowania odpowiedzialnych zachowań turystycznych
The Ecological Education in Tourist Destinations for the Formation of Responsible Tourist Behaviours

Author(s): Małgorzata Borkowska-Niszczota
Subject(s): Education, Business Economy / Management, Organizational Psychology, Political Ecology, Tourism
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur
Keywords: sustainable tourism; ecological education; tourist destination; environmentally valuable area; responsible tourist’s behaviour;

Summary/Abstract: The article undertakes the problem of tourists ecological education realised at tourist destinations, particularly in environmentally valuable areas. It indicates the role of different public and private sector subjects, responsible for the formation of preferable tourists’ behaviours (mainly in the ecological aspect), indispensable to the development of the sustainable tourism. A special role in this area is attributed to operators in the field of tourist services. A complement of the theoretical part is the last element of the elaboration, based on empirical findings of research carried out on the ecologically valuable areas of Podlaskie Voivodeship, presenting the activity of subjects serving of hotel management within the range makings available of the information on the subject ecological preservations in the tourism and the sustainable tourism, and the estimation by tourists of the access to that information in places of the rest. The research proves a poor access to ecological education and the contents devoted to the concept of sustainable tourism in the tourist destination areas, inclusive of rare educational actions of the hotel industry. The research findings also show a low interest in the environmental knowledge as regards ecological behaviours of the very consumers of tourist products.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: 6A
  • Page Range: 183-195
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish