Adam Szromek

Silesian University of Technology · Department of Management of Technological Processes

In this paper, the authors present the results of a survey conducted on the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH), whose goal was to evaluate how sustainable development is progressing from various perspectives, i.e. environmental, social, clients’ and partners’ perspectives. The study confirms that heritage authenticity is a key resource th...

The article presents the results of research on business models of industrial heritage tourism sites. A critical review of the literature was made and research was conducted on the basis of tourist attractions associated with the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Based on the research, components of the models were analysed and an overall sust...

Cities, especially those with historical values, are the target of mass tourism. Urban space is often the main source of disputes arising from conflicting interests, attitudes, and needs relating to the way it is used. The causes of conflicts and their scale vary widely. The aim of the research described in the article was to identify the attitudes...

Urban space is often the cause of disputes. The underlying causes of these disputes are conflicting interests, attitudes and needs regarding the way it is used. Among the various functions performed by cities, tourism activities have been distinguished as the foremost in the cities of historical value. Mass tourism has developed in the last decade...

The paper aims to analyze the environmental aspects of innovation activity undertaken by companies and, in particular, to assess sustainable business leaders’ propensity to generate eco-innovation. The research described in the paper was descriptive and, to some extent, diagnostic. It was based on a non-random sample and was conducted—using the Com...

The suspension of tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an almost complete halt in the activities of the tourism industry. This paper attempts to assess the ability to use the potential of health tourism enterprises in counteracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic and to propose a sustainable transformation of the business model of the heal...

Miasta, zwłaszcza te o walorach historycznych, są celem masowej turystyki. Miejska przestrzeń często bywa głównym powodem sporów, u źródła których leżą sprzeczne interesy, postawy i potrzeby odnoszące się do sposobu jej użytkowania. Przyczyny konfliktów oraz ich skala są bardzo zróżnicowane. Celem opisanych w artykule badań była identyfikacja post...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced or even temporarily halted tourism worldwide. The lack of tourists has huge consequences not only for the tourism industry, but also for the tourism economy. Health tourism enterprises are also affected by this problem, but their situation is somewhat different from other tourism enterprises, as the relationship of...

The main goal of our research was to identify, characterize and discuss the main types of business models that can be found in touristic heritage sites that have been transformed into such from former industrial facilities or were newly created to pass on the heritage values. The research is a continuation of our study that started in 2017 on on Po...

The article presents the results of the analysis of the elements of business models of spa tourism enterprises in the context of the principles of sustainable development in tourism business. In the process of defining individual rules for tourist enterprises, an approach based on sustainable tourism criteria and an attempt to adjust them to indivi...

The aim of this article is to discuss the basic types of business transformations identified in post-industrial heritage sites in the context of changes in business models. The basis for this analysis is the research carried out in 2017 in 42 post-industrial tourism objects, in the Industrial Monuments Route (IMR) largest in Poland, that is a part...

Making decisions in the enterprise is a complex process of choosing the optimal solution. A manager who makes decisions in the management process is guided by a set of managerial criteria and competencies. The manager’s competences are shaped in the process of education and experience acquisition. However, the manager also has its own system of val...

The article provides the opportunity to include in the business model of a health resorts enterprise the tasks and objectives of combating key medical and tourist dysfunctions, making the model a sustainable business model.

In researchers’ work nowadays there is a big and increasing amount of stress. In this paper, we have conducted an analysis of this problem because we think it is necessary to cope with it to increase the academic workers’ quality of working life. The aim of this paper is to assess the level of stress load of Polish researchers concerning subsequent...

Sustainable tourism, carried out on spa tourism enterprises, is a key issue that requires the combination of the implementation of economic goals of business activity and, at the same time, the limitation of negative influences on the tourist areas, which are valuable from the point of nature. The main objective of this article and, at the same tim...

The role of a scientist in society is undoubtedly extremely important. This thesis was particularly confirmed by the global events of the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, when the spread of the COVID-19 virus revealed the helplessness of humanity in the face of a pandemic. Only intensive scientific work, having an interdisciplinar...

This paper aimed to present a model of natural environment management in national parks in Poland in the context of increased tourist traffic. The research area comprised Polish national parks as they are characterized by barely altered nature, little human impact, and undisturbed natural phenomena. The methods involved the observational method, li...

This article presents considerations on business models, overtourism, and sustainable development on an example of the most important Polish tourist destination, which is Krakow. The purpose of the article is to identify the values generated and captured by tourist enterprises in the context of the occurrence of a specific level of overtourism. The...

Scientific research into the effect of tourist traffic in a tourist area have shown that the excessive concentration of tourist traffic leads to overcrowding in attractive locations, over-advertising, and aggressive commercialization, which lower the aesthetic quality of tourists’ experiences and result in the degradation of natural and cultural re...

The problem of overtourism, i.e., tourist congestion in visited places, and the negative impacts of tourists on the environment and residents, are increasingly noticeable with the increase in popularity of tourism. In addition, human impact on the environment is often negative in relation to the assumptions of the concept of sustainable development...

This paper presents the basis of the tourism area life cycle (TALC) concept and its extension in the context of the implementation of sustainable development practices in the tourist business model. The author uses the logistic function to determine the level of tourist absorption and capacity. The empirical basis of the methods used was statistics...

This article discusses the need to expand the concept of the value proposition, in order that this business model component includes the value for a customer, the value captured by the enterprise, and the value for the community, as well as benefits for the natural environment. The objective of the article is to identify sustainable development com...

The aim of this article was to identify features and attributes of tourist facilities that affect trust among them and allows estimating the level of trust among any given site on a touristic route. The level of trust can be a key feature that affects the capability of tourist facilities to create and enter complex relations. It is also crucial for...

Literature on the trends of health tourism development has proven that it is becoming one of the most important tourism activities. With the growing popularity of this form of tourism, the structure of the needs of tourists and spa patients is simultaneously changing. This article presents the results of self-research carried out in Polish spa reso...

The aim of the paper was to create a configuration model of an inter-organizational network for post-industrial tourist organizations. Nowadays, establishing organized and structured cooperation is necessary not only from a single organization’s perspective, which fights for survival on a highly competitive market, but also from the perspective of...

This article expands on knowledge about modeling tourism business. The basic scientific problem of the conducted research was the need to modernize the way of doing business in spa tourism enterprises by popularizing the business model and to provide an indication of the elements of the business model that should be grounded in the principles of su...

Background. The basic background of the conducted research was the need to modernize business models of spa enterprises. In many cases the lack of formalized business model can be noticed, while in some areas there are attempts to describe it. Yet, this is often a deceptive activity, forced by hurried introduction of market conditions into health r...

Purpose. The aim of the article is to try to integrate the structure of a spa product and business model of the spa sector, with particular emphasis on the value proposition for the client perceived through the prism of the core benefits in the spa product. Method. Through critical analysis of the literature, the work cites key categories of value...

The effectiveness of health systems is an area of constant interest for public health researchers and practitioners. The varied approach to effectiveness itself has resulted in numerous methodological proposals related to its measurement. The limitations of the currently used methods lead to a constant search for better tools for the assessment of...

Artykuł omawia kluczowe zagrożenia mediów internetowych dominujące w drugiej dekadzie XXI w. Przytoczono liczne wyniki badań bezpośrednio lub pośrednio związanych z podejmowanym tematem, a następnie odwołano się do przykładów, jakie można zaobserwować w mediach cyfrowych. Celem pracy było podjęcie próby scharakteryzowania zagrożeń i możliwości, jak...

In Poland, following the example of other EU countries, the first maps of health needs prepared by the Ministry of Health were presented in 2016. The maps constitute a foundation for rational decision-making in the management of health care resources, being potentially useful for all actors in health system. This refers in particular to the institu...

An important problem for the development of tourism in the polar regions is the determination of the limit of tourist traffic that these regions can accept, without risking the degradation of the environment. One such region is Antarctica. This article describes the environmental conditions of Antarctica that decide its attractiveness for tourists,...

Patients with schizophrenia are predisposed toward developing cardiovascular disease. Although neuroleptics affect the cardiovascular system, it is also important to consider the consequences of the disease itself such as lower physical activity due to living on disability pension, inadequate nutrition, and/or nicotine addiction, being more common...

W artykule opisano warunki naturalne i zasoby przyrodolecznicze Żegiestowa-Zdroju - niewielkiego uzdrowiska karpackiego. W analizie rozwoju tego kurortu zastosowano model cyklu życia obszaru turystycznego R.W. Butlera (ang. tourism area life cycle ) (TALC). Analiza wykazała, że cykl życia Żegiestowa Zdroju nie ma przewidywalnej postaci zachodzących...

Background: Neurotrophin-4/5 (NT-4/5) and glutathione peroxidase-1 (GPX-1) have been shown to play a major role in neuronal processes including depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They protect the body from oxidative damage by affecting neuronal growth, development and plasticity. The aim of the study was to evaluate the concentra...

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Background: Stress may induce inflammatory changes in the immune system and activate pro-inflammatory cytokines and their receptors by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Materials and method: 460 hospitalized patients with panic disorders (PD) and/or personality disorders (P) were studied. The study group comprised subjects with...

Aim: Alexithymia is associated with limited cognitive processing of emotions by an individual suffering from recurrent urticaria and alexithymia and makes them focus on somatic manifestations of emotional arousal and on poorly controlled compulsive reactions to negative stimulation. Alexithymia is considered to be a personality trait, which, along...

Background: Disrupted circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion in depression shows a relationship with the exacerbation of inflammatory processes. Proinflammatory mechanisms of depression are sustained by oxidative stress. This contributes to melatonin deficiency and to the malfunction of the defense mechanisms in the brain. Disrupted melatonin sec...

Background After the fall of communism, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe started the process of political, economic, and social transformation. In health system the reform directions were often similar, despite differences in transition dynamics and the degree of government determination to implement reforms. Nonetheless, for most post-c...

The aim of this article is to present the course of privatization of spa companies in Poland during the period 2001–2011. We discuss assumptions of the privatization process, as well as actual implementation, having identified the process as chaotic and inconsistent with prior legal provisions. We found that in its applied form the process resulted...

The paper presents a concept for the application of Balanced Scorecard in hotel management processes. The paper also introduces the characteristics of BSC: its genesis, perspectives and measurers used within this tool. Further the authors discuss the impact of characteristic features of the hotel industry and touristic product, which have to be tak...

Authors of this paper have undertaken the issue of interests in selected tourist attractions in Silesian Voivodeship. The goal of this publication was analysis of attendance to Industrial Monuments Route in years 2009–2014 and its structure in year 2014 with particular consideration of so-called “Technique Stars”.

The article suggests the possibility of using selected logistics methods to service of tourist traffic in spas. The aim of the study is the exemplification of the implementation of the Conwey's algorithm, which is one of the ways of optimization tasks on many identical workstations. The author identify opportunities to apply this method to optimize...

DOI: 10.5593/SGEM2015/B21/S8.096 OBSERVATION AS A BASIC QUALITATIVE METHOD IN TOURISM RESEARCH CASE STUDY DONOVALY SLOVAKIA P. CUKA, Z. KRUCZEK, A. SZROMEK Thursday 17 September 2015 by Libadmin2015 References: 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2015, www.sgem.org, SGEM2015 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-3...

Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be perceived as a psychoneuroimmunological disorder in which cytokines affecting the neurochemical and neuroendocrine functions of the body play an important role. Among cytokines, chemokines participating in activation of the inflammatory response are considered to be crucial. Method: 220 men...

The goal of the present work is to evaluate the suitability of the Mystery Shopping (MS) method in assessing the quality of tourist attractions. The MS method has been applied to assess the quality of the tourism product offered by museums in Krakow, as they are the most important tourist attractions of the city, which itself is a widely known cent...

The goal of the present work is to evaluate the suitability of the Mystery Shopping (MS) method in assessing the quality of tourist attractions. The MS method has been applied to assess the quality of the tourism product offered by museums in Krakow, as they are the most important tourist attractions of the city, which itself is a widely known cent...

Spa Centers in Poland have recently faced a need to adapt to the market rules, due to the legal and economic changes. The article's aim is to analyze the characteristics of the management boards of the spa treatment facilities, and the way of perceiving a visitor by the managers. We have found that most of the companies underline the desire to acqu...

Purpose. A fundamental aim of this research was to assess the usefulness of the Mystery Shopping (MS) method in examining the quality of museums. Method. The MS method has been applied to assess the quality of the tourism product offered by museums in Krakow, as museums are the most important tourist attractions of the city, which itself is a well-...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of body mass changes on plasma concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines in obese women after the initially obtained weight reduction in a five-year follow-up period. Material and methods: Thirty out of 42 women with simple obesity (age 41.8 ± 11.9 years; BMI 36.5 ± 4.6 kg/m2) w...

Introduction . There are currently no studies published on the relationship between participation in international sports events and physical activity of the fans. This inspired the authors to examine this subject. The aim of the study was to estimate the level of physical activity of Polish national teams' supporters of selected sports disciplines...

Migration and ethical recruitment of health care workers is receiving increased attention worldwide. Europe's aging population is creating new opportunities for medical doctors for finding employment in other countries, particularly those of a better standard of living. We conducted a survey among 1214 medical students in five out of eleven univers...

This research examines the behaviors and preferences of Polish ski resorts visitors, the results of which serve as the basis of segmentation criteria. Using correspondence analysis has made it possible to consider a few important characteristics and behaviors of Polish skiers during the segmentation process. On the basis of the conducted analysis,...

The changes in the demographic structure of societies are one of the key factors affecting the social and economic life in a modern world. The article tries to identify key demographic changes that affect the demand for health tourism services. It focuses particularly on the situation in Po land, as in this country the worst levels of basic demogra...

Wprowadzenie Ruch turystyczny związany jest ze zmianą środowiska, miejsca pobytu, rytmu życia, dobrowolnie, bez przymusu i odnosi się do określonego obszaru, kierunku, okresu, w którym trwa itp. Międzynarodowa Akademia Turystyki w Monte Carlo określiła ruch turystyczny jako " (...) podróże podejmowane dla przyjemności, wypoczynku lub leczenia – pie...

Zarys treści: Atrakcje turystyczne stanowią główny element produktu turystycznego. Kopalnia Soli w Wieliczce jest najczęściej odwiedzaną i najlepiej skomercjalizowaną atrakcją turystyczną w Polsce, unikalnym w skali świata obiektem górniczym wpisanym na listę UNESCO. W pracy autorzy podjęli próbę wykorzystania modelu cyklu ewolucji obszaru turystyc...

Obesity is associated with subclinical, chronic, and systemic immune activation characterized by increased serum concentration of proinflammatory cytokines released by adipose tissue. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between stage of development of obesity and changes in activity of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) system d...

Tourist attractions are the main feature of a tourism product. The Salt Mine in Wieliczka is the most visited and best commercialized tourist attraction in Poland, unique on a world scale, a mining site inscribed on the UNESCO list. In the following work, the authors have attempted to use R.W. Butler's model of tourism area evolution to interpret t...

This research focuses on an analysis of the development of Polish spas and their life cycles. The author discusses hypotheses on the development of Polish spas to contribute to existing knowledge and an evolutionary model of spas. These concepts are based on Butler's model of the tourist area cycle of evolution in order to describe individual stage...

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