Czesław Adamiak

• Nicolaus Copernicus University

Tourism statistics based on surveying accommodation providers ignore many categories of tourists, e.g. VFR and second home tourists. The article concerns a growing category of “invisible” accommodation – apartments for short-term tourist rentals. The aim is to analyze the distribution and changes in the supply and demand for tourist apartments in P...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant decline in human mobility during the past three years. This may lead to reconfiguring future tourism flows and resulting transformations in the geographic patterns of economic activities and transportation needs. This study empirically addresses the changes in tourism mobility caused by the pan...

There is now a renaissance of interest in Poland’s urban regions, including the Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) and this can be considered due to a change from the administrative and sectoral approach dominating planning for regional development in the direction of a functional one. This paper presents an overview of the concepts related to FUAs and...

Internet platforms enabling the short-term rental of private homes are an increasingly important provider of tourist accommodation and a challenge for urban policy. Airbnb is frequently blamed for encouraging property owners to remove their homes from the permanent housing market, thus contributing to the gentrification and displacement of local re...

The EU’s cohesion policy is a fundamental component of intervention policies in united Europe. Its primary goal is to reduce the scale of spatial differences in development by striving to improve economic, social, and territorial cohesion. The outcomes of the actions implemented to date have been unsatisfactory. This underperformance is the basis f...

The EU's cohesion policy is a fundamental component of intervention policies in united Europe. Its primary goal is to reduce the scale of spatial differences in development by striving to improve economic, social, and territorial cohesion. The outcomes of the actions implemented to date have been unsatisfactory. This underperformance is the basis f...

Celem opracowania jest określenie możliwości wykorzystania zróżnicowanych typologii obszarów wiejskich do wyjaśnienia procesów rozwojowych, a w dalszej kolejności do kształtowania polityki rozwojowej na obszarach wewnętrznych peryferii. W artykule zaprezentowano rozmieszczenie przestrzenne wewnętrznych peryferii w Polsce oraz przeprowadzono analizę...

Poland presents a compelling case study in the rise of right-wing populism. In 2023, after eight years at the helm, the anti-elitist and Eurosceptic PiS party lost the parliamentary elections. This paper explores the geography of this political shift, analysing election results from 2011 to 2023 against the backdrop of regional socioeconomic divide...

The place-based approach in regional policy draws attention to the need for tailoring regional interventions to the specificity of local contexts and their spatial connections. In this context, functional urban areas (FUA) are significant, reflecting the spatial ranges of functional relations and linkages generated between nodal cities and the surr...

Hitchhiking has a long history as a form of alternative tourism and has experienced significant transformations in recent years due to the overall digitalisation of travel and culture. Similarly to other forms of mobilities, it was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and non-pharmaceutical interventions aiming to stop the disease. The paper first de...

Turystyka Kulturowa nr 127 (2/23) czerwiec 2023 http://turystykakulturowa.org/ojs/index.php/tk/article/view/1384 True crime to gatunek twórczości dokumentalnej opowiadającej historie prawdziwych przestępstw lub zbrodni. Jego rosnąca popularność przekłada się na pojawienie się ruchu turystycznego skierowanego do muzeów poświęconych przestępczości i...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, platform-mediated short-term rentals are believed to have performed better than traditional tourism accommodation due to tourist preferences and the possibility of evading some sanitary regulations. The paper investigates this difference in 31 European countries by combining conventional hotel statistics with novel dat...

Cohesion policy remains unalterably one of the basic policies of the European Union. Its importance, however, changes together with ever stronger challenges for marginalized regions. Public intervention carried out within this policy is particularly significant for economically less developed areas – the inner peripheries – characterized by numerou...

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the major source of internationally comparable data on tourism. However, UNWTO data has two drawbacks: it focuses on international trips and ignores differences between regions within individual countries. Alternative sources of big data are increasingly used to enhance tourism statistics. In this paper, we com...

Airbnb is the most valuable tourism company in history and an epitome of the platform economy in tourism. Since 2020, together with the entire tourism sector, it has experienced the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper presents the context for the current international research on Airbnb by describing the origin, current state, and pos...

La política de cohesión es una de las políticas básicas de la Unión Europea. Su intervención es particularmente significativa para las regiones menos desarrolladas. La búsqueda de resultados óptimos podría hacer superar de manera más efectiva las limitaciones al desarrollo de dichas regiones. Polonia es el principal beneficiario de las ayudas de la...

Internet platforms, enabling short-term rental of private houses, are an increasingly important provider of tourist accommodation. The largest peer-to-peer accommodation platform is Airbnb. To date, most geographical studies on Airbnb investigated spatial patterns and effects of platform activity on large cities. This study attempts to expand the u...

The paper examines the size, structure, distribution, dynamics, and use of Airbnb accommodation offer in 167 countries. Web-scrapping Airbnb website in fall 2018 and 2019 resulted in a datasets on 5.7 million listings, including 3.6 million active listings which have been rented out (reviewed) during the last year. Listings are divided into four gr...

Purpose – the main goal of tourism clusters is to attract more tourists to the region and improve the quality of regional tourism products. The aim of this paper is to verify whether the initiative of the Eastern Poland Tourism Brands Cluster has contributed to the development of tourism services and products offered by local firms. Research method...

The rising number of homes and apartments rented out through Airbnb and similar peer-to-peer accommodation platforms cause concerns about the impact of such activity on the tourism sector and property market. To date, spatial analysis on peer-to-peer rental activity has been usually limited in scope to individual large cities. In this study, we tak...

The article presents the level and spatial structure of the absorption of EU funds within Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy during the 2007–2013 EU financial framework in Poland. The data analysed include all of the payments from European programmes, divided into two groups: the support dedicated for the development of agriculture and...

The aim of the article is to assess the impact of the instruments implemented within pillar II of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the economic development of rural areas in Poland. Approximately 40% of all EU funds received by Poland was directed to rural areas (including agriculture). Such a significant financial input in the period 2002–2...

The aim of the article is to assess the impact of the instruments implemented within pillar II of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the economic development of rural areas in Poland. Approximately 40% of all EU funds received by Poland was directed to rural areas (including agriculture). Such a significant financial input in the period 2002-2...

The aim of the paper is to describe the process of accommodation choice by Polish tourists visiting Croatia. It uses online survey data gathered among the users of thematic Facebook pages and internet forums. The results show a dominance of apartments and other forms of self-catering accommodation among the accommodation services used by Polish tou...

The aim of the study is to learn the preferences of Chinese tourists in Europe in terms of the choice of tourist attractions which they visit. The article uses an original research procedure: for selected tourist attractions in European countries the numbers of reviews posted on TripAdvisor webpage in general and in Chinese are measured. This allow...

Airbnb is the largest peer-to-peer platform offering tourist accommodation in private homes. Tourism scholars are increasingly interested in its influence on the tourism industry, tourist behaviour, destinations and urban housing (Dolnicar, 2017; Dredge & Guimóthy, 2017; Guttentag, 2015). Several studies have used spatial analysis to determine the...

National Rural Network is an important instrument for rural development in Poland. NRN is an instrument of the Rural Areas Development Programme. The main objective of NRN is to support the rural areas of the European Union by providing information, experiences and good practices for sustainable rural development. These measures are intended to imp...

The article presents an analysis of the use of Regional Operational Program for Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship 2007-2013 funds for the the development of tourism, with particular Focus on cultural tourism. Firstly, a spatial analysis of the use of ROP funds for the development of tourism in the voivodship was presented. Afterwards, nine concrete ex...

Since the late twentieth century, many developed countries have experienced population deconcentration, labelled as counterurbanization. There has been an academic discussion on the meaning, validity and universality of this concept, drivers of counterurbanization and its impacts on rural areas. To date, research on counterurbanization mostly apply...

Celem badania jest ocena przydatności opinii online o parkach narodowych w badaniach ruchu turystycznego i zarządzaniu parkami. Badano opinie dotyczące parków narodowych oraz obiektów przyrodniczych znajdujących się w ich granicach wystawione przez odwiedzających serwis TripAdvisor – największy globalny serwis gromadzący opinie turystów o obiektach...

Currently, urban sprawl is one of important spatial problems in Poland, although to date it has mostly been recognised as an issue in suburban areas. This study aims to explain how the expansion of purpose-built second homes contributes to the creation of a sprawled settlement pattern in areas of high natural value, focusing on the example of Bory...

Tourism produces an increasing share in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These are mostly derived from transport emissions, and long-haul air travel in particular. Short-haul domestic tourism is believed by some to be a potential substitute for long-haul tourism. Using the example of Finland this paper examines the extent to which domestic se...

Różne formy użytkowania drugich domów i ogrodów działkowych są rozpowszechnione w wielu częściach Europy i świata, ale w niektórych krajach środkowej i wschodniej Europy nabrały szczególnego znaczenia w kulturze wypoczynku. Niniejszy tekst ma na celu zaprezentowanie tradycji wypoczynku na działkach i w drugich domach w krajach Europy Środkowo-Wscho...

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Pitkänen, K. Hiltunen, M., Adamiak, C., Furman, E., Hall, C.M., Hannonen, O., Kietäväinen, A., Paloniemi, R., Rinne, J., Strandell, A., Tuulentie, S., Vepsäläinen, M. & Åkelund, U. Kesämökkeily on osa suomalaista elämämtapaa ja kulttuuriperintöä. Lähes jokaisella on omakohtaisia kokemuksia lomanvietosta mökillä. On arvioitu, että yli puolet suomal...

In the context of changes and challenges that rural areas are encountering, tourism in rural areas is recognized as a useful development mechanism in terms of its socioeconomic contribution. In the Finnish context, the tourist industry is also recognized as an important source of rural development. Based on a survey of entrepreneurs’ attitude on to...

Drugie domy, w tym celowo zbudowane domy letniskowe i zaadaptowane istniejące gospodarstwa rolne, stanowią istotny i coraz częstszy element zagospodarowania obszarów wiejskich o wysokich walorach krajobrazowych. W niniejszym opracowaniu zanalizowano wpływ, jaki rozwój drugich domów wywiera na zmiany krajobrazu kulturowego wsi na przykładzie regionu...

Artykuł zawiera przegląd literatury oraz założenia i wstępne wyniki badań nad wpływem drugich domów na region turystyczny. Najpierw przedstawiono zjawisko drugich domów w Polsce na tle świata oraz rozmieszczenie i charakterystykę zjawiska na obszarze badawczym Borów Tucholskich. Następnie zaprezentowano wpływ drugich domów na obszary recepcji w war...

Rural communities are getting more diversified in terms of people's backgrounds, sources of livelihood and interests towards the rural landscape. A common way to discuss rural community change has been to contrast in-migrants and seasonal residents with long-term rural residents. In this article, we aim to challenge this segmentation. We ask what i...

Artykuł prezentuje analizę uwarunkowań rozmieszczenia drugich domów na terenie województwa kujawsko-pomorskiego oraz relacji przestrzennych drugich domów z formalną bazą noclegową. Bazując na pierwotnych danych ilościowych scharakteryzowano rozmieszczenie drugich domów w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim i pozytywnie zweryfikowano hipotezę, że drugie...

Internal Migration in Germany in 1990 And 2005 The article seeks to answer the questions concerning the possibility of identifying regular patterns within internal migration in the towns and rural areas of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as factors contributing to regional variations in the process. The research involves 439 German counties...