Aleksander Panasiuk

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Jagiellonian University

With the growing awareness among entrepreneurs and consumers within the tourism industry regarding the field of sustainable development, it seems necessary to base hotel classification systems on an integrated approach to management quality, including the fulfillment of ecological and environmental criteria. However, this topic has yet to be recogn...

PURPOSE: This study explores the relationship between the resilience of the hotel industry (an underdeveloped concept) and the factors that support the development of this industry. It examines whether the resilience of the hotel industry varies regionally and whether it is influenced either by the characteristics of the hotel industry or by region...

The tourism market is characterized by a high level of competition. Hence, the entities providing tourism services and creating their offers in tourist destinations take actions aimed at satisfying the consumers’ (tourists’) needs. These activities are realized by achieving the appropriate level of marketing orientation. In terms of behaviour, mark...

Crimea is a very attractive tourist destination with a high rank of tourist values, being natural and cultural heritage, with high recognition on the international tourist market. Since 2014, the tourism economy has been in a protracted crisis, caused by both internal and external reasons. The annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union tourism policy has been increasingly focused on initiatives in the field of social tourism, which are one of the ways of achieving sustainable development in the European tourism economy. Most of the research projects that have so far been conducted in the field have focused on the benefit...

Leisure services encompass a variety of initiatives and related to the planning, development, and operation of parks, trails, zoos, and many other recreational and athletic facilities. Together, they are responsible for millions of jobs around the world. But in order to ensure their long-term viability, leisure services need to be sustainable. And...

Miasta są atrakcyjnymi destynacjami turystycznymi, pełniąc jednocześnie funkcję ośrodków przemysłowych, administracyjnych oraz ważnych węzłów komunikacyjnych, co sprawia, że charakteryzują się wysokim stopniem zanieczyszczenia powietrza. Celem opracowania jest próba ustalenia czy potencjalni turyści – w ocenie atrakcyjności turystycznej miasta, do...

The article addresses implementing the marketing concept to the activities of travel agency market entities using the example of tour operators. The issues of the essence of marketing orientation and the stages of its development are presented. Then, theoretical information on the functioning of the travel agency market is given, along with an indi...

The purpose of the article is to determine whether potential tourists consider information about a city's air quality in their assessment of its tourist attractiveness and how this this information affects their travel decisions. Urban tourism is a common and dynamically developing form of tourism. Cities encourage tourists to visit them with vario...

Introduction. City tourism is one of the most frequently chosen forms of tourism consisting of many motives for doing it. On the modern tourist market, there are many negative phenomena that significantly affect the functioning of urban tourist destinations but primarily have an impact on the decisions of potential tourists about choosing cities as...

Cities are multifunctional by definition, and an increasingly significant function is the tourist function. City tourism is one of the most dynamically developing forms of tourism. Tourists’ decisions regarding choosing a destination are influenced by a number of factors determining the subjective assessment of the tourist attractiveness of a given...

The work addresses the issue of implementing the function of the state in the tourism economy by government and self-government administration institutions. Attention is paid to the scope of the functions of the state carried out in the tourism economy and the multiplicity of entities involved in achieving the objectives in this field. A multi-leve...

One of the functions of cities is the tourist function. The importance of this function increases, which results from the fact that cities are more and more often chosen as destinations for tourist trips. However, because cities are by definition multifunctional, there is a system of dependencies between the tourist function and the other functions...

The tourist market is extensive and internally complicated, and the processes on it are constantly developing. Contemporary development trends in tourism, occurring both on the demand side (motives of trips) and supply (tourist offers), affect the structure of the tourism market, leading to unusual tourist behavior, thus contributing to the emergen...

The article presents the issues of substitutability of the tourism market with industry markets. The basic scope of substitution covers the tourism market with other leisure markets. At the outset, the issues of: the functioning and structure of the tourism market were presented. Next, the essence of substitutability of the tourist market was inter...

Aesthetic medicine is, next to the wellness and spa, one of the most rapidly growing segments of health tourism. Its dynamic growth is closely linked to innovative offers (perhaps better described as “product innovation”). To date, however, there have been no scientific studies focusing on this market. Services in the field of aesthetic medicine ar...

This study is an attempt to analyze the evolution of terminology used in tourism sciences concerning a tourism product as well as derivative terms. The issue of a tourism product causes a lot of controversy over its semantics and structure in both international and domestic literature on the subject. The problem mainly arises from use of this term...

The aim of the study is to assess the current model of tourism policy in Poland against the background of solutions the European Union, together with an indication of its direction changes. Taken issues are diagnostic concept and scope of the methods used include: literature studies, logic operations, comparative analysis, heuristic methods. The re...

In the classical approach, information asymmetry refers to the relations between sellers and buyers in a given market. Information advantage on the one part of the market can lead to situation, in which the deal cannot be completed, or one of the two parts considers the transaction as not fully satisfactory. The contemporary market comprises typica...

The article is an attempt to assess the status of implementation of EU funds in Poland for the regional tourism economy. The aim of this paper is to present a range of EU funding of regional tourism economy in the next two financing perspectives of the European Union in 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. The studies are based on the information on national a...

Through the European Union funds, local government units may influence the development of tourism, including tourism infrastructure, a tourism product, promoting this product, shaping the image of the tourist area. The activities in this area should be conducted with a view to achieving specific economic effects associated with tourist traffic, its...

The use of a brand can be very profitable for both consumers and, above all, all producers. The benefits connected with brand building can be also obtained on the tourism market, including the market of health resort tourism. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to present the nature and use of the tourism brand concept on the market of health resort...

Tourist offer is created by entities of the direct tourism economy, ie. hotels entrepreneurs, travel agencies, tourist carriers and other handlers of tourism services. The tourist offer is also created by the stakeholders in the tourist destination. The term tourist destination in the article is understood in terms of the subject. The local governm...

Tendencies on the tourism market, especially elements of the market surroundings like globalization, liberalization, crisis in the economy, changes in purchase preferences, force entities offering tourist products to search the new solutions that allow to gain a competitive advantage. Tourist product is a multi- dimensional category and comprises o...

Tourism economy appears in every sphere of economy: production of goods and services, their division, exchange and consumption; it also occurs in the majority of the national economy branches that directly or indirectly deal with meeting tourist demand. The majority of economic processes in tourism sector are realized by direct tourism economy and...