Metropolitan Commuter Belt Tourism

With the current rise of metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, there is a need to analyse the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe. This book establishes a current inventory and appropriate future selection of commuter belt tourism products for metropolitan areas. It also explains how public and private resources can be combined to achieve synergistic effects in tourism promotion and provides a structural analysis for the proper management of tourist organisations in metropolitan areas. Additionally, there is insight into how the development of metropolitan areas affects rural tourism and agritourism within broader social, economic and environmental relations. The issue of the growth of metropolitan areas, which is a complex and multifaceted challenge, is elaborated on with diverse examples in Poland and further afield. This is valuable reading for students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as rural and urban studies, business management, farm management, and leisure studies.

List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I.Metropolisation and suburban tourism 1.Ecumenopolis commuter belt tourism Michal Jacenty Sznajder 2.Trends and conditions of the development of submetropolitan tourism Michal Gazdecki and Michal Jacenty Sznajder 3.Case study:the Submetropolitan Bledów Desert, an ambivalent approach to devastation of the natural environment Michal Jacenty Sznajder 4.Case study: vague hope for suburban tourism in Conakry Afrometropolis Michal 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 Balinska 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 Michal Jacenty Sznajder and Sylwia Marek 9.The concept of rural tourism and agritourism Michal Jacenty Sznajder 10.Building a tourismpalace: agritourism in metropolitan areas as another stone in the mosaic? The case of Slovenia Irma Potocnik Slavic 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 Michal 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 Elzbieta Kmita-Dziasek 19.Pilgrimaging and religious tourism in metropolitan areas Michal Jacenty Sznajder 20.Agritourism in Kraków metropolitan areas: a case study Józef Kania and Malgorzata 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 Jaroslaw Uglis and Joanna Kosmaczewska 23.A model of agritourism offer polarisation in metropolitan surroundings - the Lódz 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 Michal Jacenty Sznajder and Milena Malinowska 25.Internet product and service offers by agritourism farms located in four metropolitan areasin Poland Michal 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 Niedziólka 28. Conclusion Michal Jacenty Sznajder Glossary Index

Michal Jacenty Sznajder is Professor, rural economist, former Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, andHead of the Department of Market and Marketing at PoznanUniversity of Life Sciences, Poland.