Turystyka : niewykorzystana szansa rozwoju obszarów wiejskich w Polsce
alternative title:
Turism : untapped opportunity of rural development in contemporary Poland
author:
Seręga Zygmunt , Nowak Piotr
editor:
Kasprzyk Damian
book title:
Nie tylko o wsi... : szkice humanistyczne dedykowane profesor Marii Wieruszewskiej-Adamczyk
date of publication
:
2013
place of publication : name of publisher:
Łódź : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
pages:
149 - 167
ISBN:
978-83-7969-011-4
notes:
Bibliogr. 166 - 167
language:
Polish
book language:
Polish
abstract in English:
This article attempts to assess the importance of tourism as a source of dynamism of rural development processes. The first section recalls the basic concepts of rural development and explains what the "development" is. Next, authors present the vision of multifunctional rural development and the concept of neo-endogenous development. The second part indicates the activating role of tourism in rural areas, especially by stimulating the internal resources of the local community. Referring to the results of research, authors also pointed out the decreasing importance of tourists attractions as a factor of rural development. In conclusion, they identify main barriers of the development of tourism in rural areas, which include: too low civilization competencies of indigenous people, the lack of common acceptance of tourism and tourists, strangers in the community and in the farm and the fact that the people who are conducting the farmhouses are not farmers but representatives of different professions - people who mostly moved out of town and are not rooted in local communities.