Tourist Activity of LGBT in European Post-Communist States: the Case of Poland

Abstract

ABSTRACT. It is a common opinion thatLGBT constitute a very active segment of the present-day tourist market. In the opinions of many scientists, their tourist activity is even higher than that of heterosexual people (considering both the numbers of trips and tourist expenditures). In this article, we present the tourist activity of the Polish LGBT society as an example of this segment from one of post-communist countries. In an anonymous poll, 442 people participated who represented 4 LGBT environments, i.e. gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals. We examined their tourist activity from the perspective of the destinations of their trips, expenditures etc. Thereby, the information obtained allowed us to define the tourist activity level of the Polish LGBT as compared with the whole of the Polish society and LGBT environments from other countries. The results obtained have implications for further research related to the tourist activity of LGBT.

LGBT+ tourists’ destination choice: relationship between psychological motivations and destination image

“…The available scientific studies concerning LGBT+ tourism motivations are focused on LGBT+ tourist activity from the perspective of the destinations of their trips, expenditures, etc. (Lubowiecki-Vikuk & Borzyszkowski, 2016). LGBT+ hotel experiences of gays and lesbians (Poria, 2006); diversification according to age (Hughes, Deutsch, 2010) or segmentation of gay and lesbian travelers' motivations for travel based on their stage of sexual identity formation (Khan, 2013); the way tourism products are promoted to LGBT people (Moreira & Campos, 2019); trans women's tourism motivations and experiences (Monterrubio, Madera & Pérez, 2020).…”