Although online travel agencies (OTA) exist on tourism market since 1996, they represent only a fraction of coverage in scientific tourism literature. Oligopolistic type of OTA market and relations between OTA and hospitality industry are referred mainly in industry journals and press releases....

Sustainable tourism development and digital transformations are among the key issues that should be taken into account when preparing contemporary tourism degree programmes. In order to offer an innovative curriculum, systems thinking and knowledge from the intersection of many areas including...

The key aim of this article is to provide an interdisciplinary look at tourism and its diachronic textual threads bequeathed by the 'proto-tourist' texts of the Greek travel author Pausanias. Using the periegetic, travel texts from his voluminous Description of Greece (2^nd century CE) as a...

Arthropod-borne viral infections caused by dengue virus (DENV) and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) are prevalent in the same regions and are spread by the same mosquito type (Aedes) and have similar clinical manifestations. This study emphasized the challenges of diagnosing fever in a patient returning...

. The development of social network sites not only facilitates the acquisition and deepening of knowledge, but also provides the possibility of easily contacting foresters, specialists in natural sciences and nature enthusiasts. In addition, for some years already, internet users have been able to...

A technical monument like narrow-gauge railway can become an important element in creating a tourist product. The article presents the conditions of operation of narrow-gauge railways in Poland, both on the demand side - how railways can be seen by tourists, and the supply side by analysing the...

People who are HIV+ travelling around the world comprise a unique group with regards to possible immunological disorders that can be intensified by climatic and time factors. Increased exposure of vulnerable tourists to various biological factors (viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites) is...

The article characterizes the selected information sources referring to the clients of travel services (activity on websites or social networks and mobile applications used), next an attempt is made to transform the information collected from the aforementioned sources into knowledge allowing...

Tourism and the consumption of goods, as well as tourism-related services, especially air transport, are determined by a large number of factors, which make these issues an interesting subject of study, yet a complicated one. An analysis and a study are essential for this article, especially with...

Intense competition in the tourist services market makes that also farmers involved in agro-tourism have to use marketing tools to succeed in their business. The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate marketing activities used by agro-tourism accommodation providers in Roztocze. Prices...