Open AccessProcesses of tourism space formation
Author(s) -
Bogdan Włodarczyk
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
turyzm/tourism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2080-6922
pISSN - 0867-5856
DOI - 10.2478/v10106-011-0007-3
Subject(s) - tourism , space (punctuation) , context (archaeology) , modernization theory , process (computing) , economic geography , geography , computer science , political science , archaeology , law , operating system
The article is an attempt to name and define the processes which transform geographical space and result in the appearance or disappearance of tourism space as broadly understood. The processes include restructurization (modernization and revitalization) and degradation. All of them have been discussed in the context of their actual stage of tourism space development. More attention is devoted to degradation, which has only recently been seen as a process which may lead to the creation of spaces attractive to tourists