Metropolitan Commuter Belt Tourism

Michał Jacenty Sznajder is Professor, rural economist, former Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, and Head of the Department of Market and Marketing at Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland.

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Introduction

Part I. Metropolisation and suburban tourism

1. Ecumenopolis commuter belt tourism

Michał Jacenty Sznajder

2. Trends and conditions of the development of submetropolitan tourism

Michał Gazdecki and Michał Jacenty Sznajder

3. Case study: the Submetropolitan Błędów Desert, an ambivalent approach to devastation of the natural environment

Michał Jacenty Sznajder

4. Case study: vague hope for suburban tourism in Conakry Afrometropolis

Michał Jacenty Sznajder

Part II. New paradigms and opportunities for metropolitan commuter belt tourism

5. Tourism in submetropolitan areas analysed by selected theories of economics and regional development

Agata Balińska

6. Strengthening the sustainability of rural tourism and agritourism in the twenty-first century

Adriano Ciani

7. New rural tourism paradigm in submetropolitan areas

Klaus Ehrlich

8. Normative modelling in coordination of generic and private tourism promotion in submetropolitan areas

Michał Jacenty Sznajder and Sylwia Marek

9. The concept of rural tourism and agritourism

Michał Jacenty Sznajder

10. Building a tourism palace: agritourism in metropolitan areas as another stone in the mosaic? The case of Slovenia

Irma Potočnik Slavič

11. The forthcoming ICT revolution in tourism in metropolitan areas

Piotr Senkus

Part III. Natural resources in metropolitan and submetropolitan areas

12. Tourism valorisation of metropolitan areas based on their natural resources

Monika Wojcieszak and Michał Jacenty Sznajder

13. Kampinos National Park as a tourism attraction for Warsaw metropolitan areas

Katarzyna Mikrut

14. Kampinos National Park as a place of recreation for Warsaw inhabitants

Katarzyna Dzioban

15. Otulina: agritourism in the Warsaw metopolitan area

Ewa Tyran

Part IV. Types of tourism and tourist segments in metropolitan commuter belt

16. Forms of rural tourism in metropolitan areas

Janusz Majewski

17. Holiday tourism in metropolitan areas

Andrzej Piotr Wiatrak

18. Social farming-based tourism from the perspective of metropolitan areas

Elżbieta Kmita-Dziasek

19. Pilgrimaging and religious tourism in metropolitan areas

Michał Jacenty Sznajder

20. Agritourism in Kraków metropolitan areas: a case study

Józef Kania and Małgorzata Bogusz

21. A pedagogical and psychological exegesis of tourism

Andrzej Kusztelak

Part V. Portfolio offer for tourism in submetropolitan areas

22. Traditional and modern tour operators in agritourism

Jarosław Uglis and Joanna Kosmaczewska

23. A model of agritourism offer polarisation in metropolitan surroundings - the Łódź Metropolis: a case study

Jolanta Wojciechowska

24. The basket of tourism products and services offered on the Internet by agritourism farms in selected European countries

Michał Jacenty Sznajder and Milena Malinowska

25. Internet product and service offers by agritourism farms located in four metropolitan areas in Poland

Michał Jacenty Sznajder and Damian Dudziak

26. Risk in rural tourism and agritourism

Jan Sikora

27. Tourist segmentation in rural tourism and agritourism in metropolitan areas

Arkadiusz Niedziółka

28. Conclusion

Michał Jacenty Sznajder

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