Marek Więckowski- Professor (Full) at Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences
Marek Więckowski
- Professor (Full) at Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences
Vice President of the International Geographical Union;
Deputy Director for Science IGSO PAS
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The paper develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the process of border changes in Poland since 1945. In this article, the author presents directions of change, and the functions, characterising Poland’s borders. A synthesis of relevant literature on borders shows how the specific functions of borderlands can be categorised into at least f...
This paper introduces a framework for analyzing and interpreting the visual content of tourism landscapes, particularly focusing on the comparative representation of these landscapes by destination management organizations (DMOs) in the cross-border context of Usedom Island, shared by Poland and Germany. Drawing on a
literature review and employing...
This study illustrates the temporal dynamics of tourism development in a peripheral region of Northeast India (Cherrapunjee area) with an extreme rainfall. The analysis indicates that tourism development has accelerated in the last two decades as a result of the administrative opening of Meghalaya State and the dynamic development of tourism throug...
This paper analyzes a boundary landscape and relevant evolutionary changes in land use at an EU/Schengen internal border (Poland-Slovakia), which was once a closed barrier but is now an open tourism resource. The study shows the role international borders can play in constructing recreational, tourism, and other use spaces, by identifying elements...
Only recently has the Anthropocene become a subject of tourism-specific study, with modern tourism capable of being seen as a geophysical force contributing to a reshaping of the Earth for human purposes, as well as climate change. The impact of tourism on the environment is very broad , not least as tourists are associated with pollution, especial...
W ostatnim czasie rozwinął się proces celowego "odtwarzania" granic reliktowych z myślą o pełnieniu przez nie funkcji turystycznych, dziedzictwa i pamięci. Procesy te są do-brze widoczne w wielu miejscach w Europie. W niniejszym artykule zwrócono uwagę na rekonstrukcje granic i sposób, w jaki działają one na rzecz celów związanych z turystyką i dzi...
Many researchers have shown that borders possess specific resources, have great potential, and offer conditions favourable to the development of tourism. It is thanks to attractions being associated with the boundary itself, a peripheral location, differences between sides, and the creation of cross-border space, that they tend to become tourist at...
The authors examine several ways in which political boundaries may be viewed as cultural heritage and its tourism implications. They discuss the processes and forces in the heritagization of borders and the heritage manifestations of borders. Often, state boundaries commemorate major events and envelop national stories and narratives that underscor...
The author examines boundary lines as tourist attractions and shows how it is that borders prove interesting to people. Borders interest tourists as curiosities, symbolic elements, items of heritage, and sources of education and learning. The most attractive borders, ancient walls, and boundary curiosities have started to play more significant func...
This paper seeks to offer a critical discussion of conceptual ideas of sustainability that link transport with borderlands. In recent decades, European border regions have been subject to a steady process of transformation. New sustainable ideas are among the most important paradigms where the future development of borderlands is concerned, with tr...
Relict borders may long remain tangible in the field and in people’s behaviour. However, in recent times, a process of the deliberate ‘re-creation’ of these borders has developed, with a view to their serving tourist, heritage-related and remembrance functions. The author here illustrates the processes involved by reference to the border once separ...
Contemporary and relict borders have recently emerged as tourist attractions in their own right – to the extent that specific tourist products have even been made ready on the basis of them. This article has turned its attention to the marking of borders and the way this acts in support of the tourism-related objectives now seen to represent a nove...
The chapter’s purpose is to examine interactions between geographers of socialist countries with IGU and the world geographical community at large in 1945–1990. The authors consider some specific national trends in the development of geography in the former USSR, Poland, and China under the conditions of ideological constraints and geopolitical ten...
The aim of the paper is to show the meaning and symbolism of the state border crossing individual buildings. To achieve this goal, three facilities were selected, located in diff erent parts of the world: two in Europe (including one on the internal EU border-the Purtschellerhaus mountain hut, and the other on a specifi c, external border-the Arbez...
Tourism has clear connections to bordering, debordering and rebordering. Each part of this process has important implications for tourism and development in the heritage borderscapes of border tourism destinations. The study illustrates past and current changes to the border within the bordering-debordering-rebordering framework. In particular it h...
This paper seeks to offer a critical discussion of conceptual ideas of sustainability that link transport with borderlands. In recent decades, European border regions have been subject to a steady process of transformation. New sustainable ideas are among the most important paradigms where the future development of borderlands is concerned, with tr...
Background: The development of cross-border tourism and local resources based on the border has grooving the importance in last decencies. One of the most important tourist attractions on Polish borders are tripoints. This article seeks to discuss changes made, by reference to two border tripoints situated on the junction of Polish, Czech and Slova...
Celem artykułu jest ukazanie znaczenia i symboliki granicy państwa przecinającej pojedyncze budynki. Dla realizacji tego celu wybrano trzy obiekty, położone w różnych miejscach świata: dwa w Europie (w tym jeden na granicy wewnętrznej Unii Europejskiej – schronisko Purtschellerhaus, a drugi na specyficznej, zewnętrznej granicy – Hotel Arbez) oraz j...
Transport is an integral part of tourism and the latter would not function without the development of the former. The issue of transport accessibility is of particular importance, when it comes to both reaching an area and the possibilities for moving around within it. A lack of convenient transport possibilities diminishes the tourist potential of...
As there are very marked relationships between tourism and transport, integrated knowledge of these processes is essential if destinations and tourism enterprises are to be developed, an effective tourism policy pursued, and emerging local and global issues and conflicts surrounding tourism resolved. Beyond this, in an era of huge change reflecting...
Borders have significant potential as tourist attractions, and there are many aspects of unique border locations capable of attracting people’s attention. One such attraction would be the tripoint, i.e. a place where the borders of three different countries meet physically at a single point. One of the newest such features in Europe – where the bor...
The Polish–Slovak borderland is a mountainous area with extraordinary natural conditions for tourism development. The main aim of this chapter is to analyze theoretical aspects of a relationship between transport and tourism and to assess selected changes in cross-border transport that have influenced tourism in Polish–Slovak tourism regions. We ha...
Background: The Belarusian-Polish borderland has great tourism potential but in the same time suffers from many restrictions, especially geopolitical ones. An overall facilitation of foreigners’ trips into Belarus has facilitated the development of cross-border tourism and local resources could be used by tourists. One of the most important tourist...
The aim of the article is to show the elements of cooperation that foster the connection of border cities, with particular emphasis on infrastructure, means of transport and tourism, using the example of coastal cities. An example of such a place is the island of Uznam and the coastal cities of Heringsdorf (Germany) and Świnoujście (Poland) separat...
The entire Earth system consists of fully dynamic conditions. Humankind's manifold large and small influences on the planet are now very well-documented. Changes are so vast, their traces so significant, that we have come to term this as if it was genuinely a new Epoch in the history-as the Anthropocene. Recently, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has...
Natural heritage as a resource for tourism development in the Polish Carpathians The Carpathians Mountains have great natural potential and good conditions for favourable development of tourism and constitute one of the most important tourist regions in Poland. The aim of this study is to present the role of natural resources in the mountains for t...
Zarys treści. Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia granice państwowe, uwzględniając wielowymiarowe współczesne podejścia badawcze, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem roli geografii. Zaproponowano i omówiono cztery podsta-wowe funkcje granicy: bariery, peryferia, linię zróżnicowania oraz oś integracji, które mogą tworzyć podstawy cyklu rozwoju granic i obszarów...
Zarys treści. W artykule podjęto próbę wypełnienia luki w badaniach zmian reżimu granicy polsko-białoruskiej i ich konsekwencji. Z drugiej strony opracowanie kontynuuje badania dotyczące zmienności granic polskich i ich sąsiadów. W artykule zawarto wyniki analizy zmian uregulowań prawnych, mających wpływ na rozwój zagranicz-nej turystyki przyjazdow...
La coopération scientifique entre la France et la Pologne dans le domaine de la géographie re-monte au Moyen-Âge. L'article en étudie les modalités et les produits tout d'abord dans la longue durée, jusqu'à la fin du XX e siècle. On montre que les acteurs de ces relations scientifiques sont souvent animés d'intentions politiques ou diplomatique, la...
This paper outlines the general context of tourism, and the changes it underwent, in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries post-1990. The role of European Union enlargement is also discussed, allowing for an overall highlighting of the outcomes for tourism of the CEE countries’ political, administrative and institutional transformations. I...
This paper outlines the general context of tourism, and the changes it underwent, in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries post-1990. The role of European Union enlargement is also discussed, allowing for an overall highlighting of the outcomes for tourism of the CEE countries’ political, administrative and institutional transformations. I...
The Baltic region has been an area of intense political, economic and cultural contacts since the early Middle Ages. However, the region suffered severely during the Second World War and in the years 1945-1989. Since the mid-1990s, initiatives, programs and organizations promoting cooperation in the Baltic Sea region have been created, and in addit...
Belarus was long a country to which visits by foreign tourists were highly restricted. However,recent years have brought a marked improvement in conditions and possibilities regarding crossings of the border and onward travel into the country. Of key significance to the introduction of the new facilitations are changes of the border regime and an e...
Wstęp
W Unii Europejskiej, dla polepszania polityki spójności, jednymi z bardziej istotnych miejsc są obszary przygraniczne. W Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej większość obszarów przygranicznych cechuje się znacznym oddaleniem od stolic państw oraz dużych miast i są to przeważnie obszary peryferyjne. W taką charakterystykę wpisuje się pogranicze pol...
This paper considers tourism-specific elements of Polish borders, such as principles of human mobility (of which tourism flows are one component). A dynamic model is proposed describing cross-border tourism development that affects cross-border tourism flows and tourism partnerships, and takes account of the particularities of transnational tourism...
This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region’s economy, politics or environment. With case studies from Europe, America, Asia and Africa, it provides ex...
The objective of this paper is to consider the main border issues and cross-border relationships in Central and East Europe (CEE) in the context of changing theoretical approaches to border studies. The authors start by analysing the impact of the impressive progress in the theory of borders on studies of CEE. Fundamental political changes in this...
In Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, many protected areas are situated in the borderlands. Borders (e.g. between states), boundaries (of protected areas), and frontiers (e.g. an eco-frontier) are produced by humans and underline control and ownership of land (territory). These borderlines overlap with each another - can be visible or no...
This case study considers the touristic characteristics of maritime borders on the Baltic Sea coast. A sequential model is proposed to describe cross-border tourism development, tourist flows and tourism partnerships, and takes account of the particularities of transnational tourism development on the Polish Baltic coast. The paper questions whethe...
Further tourism development in the Polish-Slovak borderland, as well as its overall economic development, depends on the construction of a motorway and expressway network. This paper analyses the impact of selected planned motorways and expressways (D1, A4, D3/S69, R1/R3/S7, and R4/S19) on the potential accessibility of the Polish-Slovak borderland...
Więckowski M., 2015, Znaczenie odległości w wykorzystaniu transportu dla rozwoju turystyki, [w:] Przestrzeń w turystyce : znaczenie i wykorzystanie; Durydiwka M, Duda-Gromada K. (red.), s. 524; WGiSR UW, ISBN 978-83-63245-89-4
Rola i znaczenie transportu w rozwoju turystyki wydaje się być oczywista a relacje te są dwustronne. Znaczenie między tur...
In this article, the author is trying to answer the fundamental question: what is present-day tourism space like at a time of highly increasing flows of people or even a shift from the space of a ‘place’ to the space of a ‘flow’? The article puts special stress on how to define the current unique multi-functional space. The author attempts to defin...
Jednym z ważniejszych czynników kształtujących rozwój turystyki w danym regionie jest wielkość bezwzględna oraz wzajemne relacje pomiędzy popytem a podażą. W warunkach rynkowych pomiędzy popytem a podażą ustala się równowaga, identyfikowana poprzez wielkość ruchu turystycznego.
Streszczenie
Jednym z dynamicznie rozwijających się sektorów turystyki w Europie jest rynek zakwaterowania z wyżywieniem we własnym zakresie (ang. self-catering accommodation). Termin "zakwaterowanie z wyżywieniem we własnym zakresie" dotyczy katego-rii obiektów noclegowych, które cechują się przede wszystkim tym, że turyści przeby-wający w tych o...
Zarys treści: W niniejszym artykule autor próbuje odpowiedzieć na podstawowe pytanie: czym jest współczesna przestrzeń turystyczna w dobie ogromnego wzrostu przepływów, wręcz przesunięcia z przestrzeni miejsc do przestrzeni przepływu (ów)? W pracy szczególny nacisk położony jest na to, w jaki sposób definiować przestrzeń, która obecnie w szczególny...
Borders can be both constraints and attractions for tourism development. Borderlands are often home to natural attractions or areas of natural and cultural importance. Borders are also important tourist attractions, and emerging tourism products associated with the border are based on the "otherness" associated with cross-boundary travel. The borde...
An essential requirement for the development, not only of tourism but also of most sectors of economy, is the development of transport infrastructure and adequate accessibility of areas. Accessibility is an important element for tourism development. The Polish-Slovak borderland is currently suffering from inadequate routes to the region and cross-b...
This paper analyses the impact of the construction of the officially planned network of motorways and expressways in the period 2010 – 2030 on tourism development in the Polish-Slovak borderland using potential accessibility approach. Relative changes of the potential accessibility values in the period 2010 – 2030 are most visible in the short-term...
This paper demonstrates that eco-frontiers are highly dependent on the function played by national borders. Barrier-borders once strengthened the 'wildness' of nature, where the isolation increased eco-dominance, and the presence of mountains enhanced the political barrier. A barrier that is both political and natural is effective in repelling huma...
front écologique, montagnes, parc national, frontière, coopération transfrontalière, Carpates, Pologne, Union Européenne
Possibilities to Obtain Data on Tourist Spatial Organization and Tourist Traffic and Indicators Proposals. The paper presents possibility of obtaining data on spatial tourist development and tourist traffic in the detailed spatial scale. Then these are the basic indicators specifically related to spatial organization, accommodation , catering, and...
Więckowski M., 2012, La mise en tourisme des frontières orientales de la Pologne [Website publication in French], Regard Sur L'Est, 62
The Polish eastern borderland is characterised by conditions favourable to the development of tourism. Tourism development is mainly based on nature and tourist infrastructure is slowly improving. The current devel...
An essential requirement for the development, not only of tourism but also of most sectors of the economy, is the development of transport infrastructure and adequate accessibility of areas. Apart from its relevance for tourism, transport infrastructure is a key factor contributing to economic success based on tourism. As a rule, growing or improvi...
The paper presents selected problems of development of tourism within the areas of the Carpathian Mts in Poland and Slovakia. The essential objective of this study has been to analyse the role and significance of tourism in the functioning of this borderland. Currently, economies are characterised by a shift in the functional development of regions...
Więckowski M., 2011, Wybrane aspekty rozwoju turystyki transgranicznej w sąsiedztwie zewnętrznej granicy strefy Schengen, Zeszyty Naukowe WSSP w Lublinie, 12, s. 122-140.
Selected aspects of transboundary tourism development close to the external border of the Schengen Zone.
Borders determine the nature of the tourist landscape and its elements t...
Granice polityczne wpływają na kształt i funkcjonowanie sieci transportu, lokalizację bazy turystycznej i stanowią filtr dla przepływu osób. Stanowią bariery, jednocześnie wpływając na istnienie nieciągłości przestrzeni społecznej i gospodarczej (w tym turystycznej). Jednocześnie obszary przygraniczne posiadają bardzo duży potencjał turystyczny i c...
Prace Kom. Geogr. Komunik. PTG, 18, s. 171-190.
Granice państw są istotnym elementem strukturyzującym zjawiska społeczne i gospodarcze w przestrzeni. Z jednej strony stanowią bariery-źródło słabego rozwoju oraz strefy niższego zaludnienia-z drugiej przy sprzyjających warunkach mogą być stymulatorem rozwoju. Zarówno występowanie granic jak i ich ch...
This paper aims to briefly review international mobility of Poles at the beginning of XXI century. The goal of this paper is also to provide with the analysis of international mobility of Poles and to consider the significance of some emerging mobility trends. This article investigates mobility as migratory and tourism movement of Poles on the inte...
The essential objective of this study has been to analyse the role and significance of political boundaries in the functioning of tourism in near-border areas. It was important to make apparent the influence of a boundary on the development of tourism structure (tourist traffic and tourist infrastructure) within near-border areas of Poland. An atte...
This contribution is the authors’ version of a document commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure in 2005 titled
“The Guideline Study of Spatial Development alongside the Polish-German Border”. This work has been elaborated by a team from
the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw as...
The geopolitical and socio-economic changes in East-Central Europe that have been started at the beginning of the 1990s have brought about a radical change in the function of boundaries, the status of border zones and the character of cross-border relationships. One of the most visible kinds of human activity in the bor-derlands is the appearance o...
Turystyce przypisuje się szczególną rolę w przełamaniu zapóźnienia cywilizacyjnego i uruchomieniu mechanizmów pozytywnych przeobrażeń struktury społecznej oraz gospodarczej regionów, szczególnie tych, które usytuowane są w sąsiedztwie granic państwowych. Turystyka wymieniana jest jako jeden z priorytetów rozwoju obszarów przygranicznych, na co szcz...
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, societies in Central and Eastern Europe have been engaged in a process of increasing mobility - among them, the Poles especially. This mobility is complex, and embraces different kinds of movements. This papers aims to replace Pole’s mobility in the light of theoretical explanation frameworks. It presents the pro...
The borderland areas make an ideal location for protected areas and tourism development. In most cases the national parks constitute very important tourist regions. To demonstrate the scale of tourism in national parks in the borderland the article presents and explains the amount of visitors in these areas. In Poland more than 8 million people vis...
Le tourisme est un phénomène majeur de la société contemporaine. Le poids économique du secteur touristique équivaut à celui des plus importantes industries modernes. G. Wackermann a bien situé la signification du tourisme dans un contexte macroéconomique plus étroit et précis: « l'internationalisation rapide, puis la mondialisation ont d'abord int...
Tourism is fully involved in the integration of Poland into Europe, but in a specific way. Besides tourists, many more visitors from abroad are persons come for business reasons. The variations in flows of visitors and tourists are sensitive to the political and legal effects of European integration. The tourist space of Poland is essentially regio...
Polish-Slovak transboundary cooperation. Geogra-fický časopis, 54, 2002, 3, 4 figs., 3 tabs., 17 refs. The paper concerns analysis of the Polish-Slovak transboundary cooperation. The author presents the legal bases for transboundary cooperation between Poland and Slovakia and the most important spheres of cooperation. In this article, attention has...
