Perception of innovation in tourism with regard to controversial types of travel: A study of Polish consumers

Abstract

The aim was to determine how tourism innovations, including controversial types of tourism, are perceived by consumers. The hypothesis adopted was that there would be statistically significant correlations between demographic variables, the respondents’ perception of innovations and their propensity to engage in non-normative behaviour during tourism trips. The study was conducted using the CAWI surveying technique by means of an online questionnaire (N = 407). The respondents had noticed significant changes in the tourism industry and the majority were in favour of those innovations. These mainly related to the development of tourist service infrastructure. The study found a statistically significant difference between male and female respondents with more males in favour of introducing controversial tourism offers to the market. Male respondents were also more likely to engage in deviant behaviour.

Disturbances of natural and cultural landscape as an element of controversies in tourism – assessment based on the analysis of stress hormones in saliva

“…the hotel industry or providers of complementary tourist attractions) can also act in a dysfunctional manner and disregard acceptable local cultural standards in tourist destinations when erecting new buildings or offering forms of entertainment that are considered artificial supplements to local tourist attractions, whose authenticity affects the experience of tourists (McCannell 1996;Urry, Larsen 2011). On the other hand, controversies in the tourist market may apply to all forms of tourism that cause justified ethical doubts, are disputable and are not subject to clear-cut assessment (Godlewski 2019;Godlewski 2021).…”