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Afryka Południowa należy do rejonów świata o szczególnie dużym udziale obszarów chronionych w ogólnej powierzchni. Tradycje ochrony przyrody sięgają w tym regionie końca XIX wieku, a powołany w 1926 roku Kruger National Park (Republika Południowej Afryki) jest jednym z najbardziej znanych parków narodowych na świecie. Obszary chronione w Afryce Południowej są chętnie odwiedzane przez turystów, w tym...
Przedstawiono charakterystykę wybranych form turystyki miejskiej (handlowa, gastronomiczna, rozrywkowa kongresowa, kulturalna, sportowa) w przekroju międzynarodowym. Funkcje turystyczne miast nie mają wyłącznie charakteru egzogenicznego, a w społeczeństwie konsumpcyjnym rośnie ich wymiar endogeniczny w związku z potrzebą obsługi mieszkańców tych miast, poszukujących blisko miejsca zamieszkania możliwości...
Celem opracowania jest wykazanie istotnej roli turystyki jako czynnika rozwoju miast średniej wielkości w Polsce. Wykazano wpływ funkcji turystycznej miasta na wielkość budżetów miejskich, wydatki budżetowe i zamożność mieszkańców.
In recent years, wine tourism has enjoyed increasing popularity with tourists. Same authors emphasise the close relationship between wine tourism and regional and local development. Wine tourism affects not only the development of the local economy, but also reinforces the awareness of the area's unique geographical and cultural characteristics among the indigenous population (owing to efforts aimed...
Food services play an important role among tourist-oriented facilities. In areas visited by tourists, food establishments are usually located in places characterised by heavy tourist traffic. In the case of larger cities, the bulk of food facilities - similarly to other services - can be found in downtown areas. Due to the fact that the distribution of food services is governed by the same rules as...
The Rio de Janeiro Conference in 1992 resolved that tourism is one of those forms of human activity that can help control the deterioration of natural environment (particularly forests). Tourism in protected areas, which is most frequently associated with eco-tourism, may assume the form of cultural tourism and adventure tourism. In its empirical part, the research covered the Kibale (Uganda) and...
One of the characteristics of the contemporary political geography is the broad scope of interest in the local settings. This fact results, in particular, from the tasks which are formulated for geography by the political institutions interested in the establishment of an efficient system of the administrative-spatial organization of the country, the electoral preferences, the grass-roots intiatives,...
The notion of regionalization should be understood as denoting the process of determination of boundaries of administrative regions of a country and vesting the regional authorities with respective competences. In the countries of Western Europe the policy of regionalization started to be conducted already in the '60s, as the response to the appearance of the so called regional question. In the subsequent...
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