Contemporary Threats
to the Development of Sustainable Urban
Tourism
Aleksander Panasiuk
1 Introduction
Cities are one of the most common tourist destinations. They are both a destination, and to a large extent, are decisiveon tourist transit traffic. This study presents
issues related to threats to the functioning of urban tourist destinations in the context
of shaping sustainable tourism. Crisis phenomena were classified, distinguishing
exogenous, endogenous and mixed phenomena. Particular attention was paid to
mixed phenomena that are caused both by the urban economy and the activity of
residents, as well as by tourist traffic. These issues are illustrated by case studies.
The main purpose of the work is to identify threats affecting the possibility of
shaping sustainable tourism in urban destinations. Additional postulative aspects
related to the assumptions of shaping the policy of the development of sustainable
urban tourism were also pointed out. For many years, the issues raised have been
popular in scientific studies on the functioning of the tourism economyin terms of
tourism threats, sustainable tourism and tourism policy. Although the issues raised
are of interest to the scientific circles, in the tourism market practice these issues
remain an important and constantly unsolved problem. Despite the activity of international organizations, governments, territorial self-governments and cooperating
institutions that support their activities, the issues of sustainable tourism, generally
and particularly in cities, as well as the threats related to tourism in urban destinations,
are still a problem that is much more often undertaken in scientific and educational
studies than solved in socio-economic practice.
A. Panasiuk (B)
Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Tourism and Sport Management Chair,
Institute of Entrepreneurship, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Łojasiewicza 4, 30-348 Krakow,
Poland
e-mail: aleksander.panasiuk@uj.edu.pl
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer
Nature Switzerland AG 2021
A. Lubowiecki-Vikuk et al. (eds.), Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure
Services, World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4_10
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to the Development of Sustainable Urban
Tourism
Aleksander Panasiuk
1 Introduction
Cities are one of the most common tourist destinations. They are both a destination, and to a large extent, are decisiveon tourist transit traffic. This study presents
issues related to threats to the functioning of urban tourist destinations in the context
of shaping sustainable tourism. Crisis phenomena were classified, distinguishing
exogenous, endogenous and mixed phenomena. Particular attention was paid to
mixed phenomena that are caused both by the urban economy and the activity of
residents, as well as by tourist traffic. These issues are illustrated by case studies.
The main purpose of the work is to identify threats affecting the possibility of
shaping sustainable tourism in urban destinations. Additional postulative aspects
related to the assumptions of shaping the policy of the development of sustainable
urban tourism were also pointed out. For many years, the issues raised have been
popular in scientific studies on the functioning of the tourism economyin terms of
tourism threats, sustainable tourism and tourism policy. Although the issues raised
are of interest to the scientific circles, in the tourism market practice these issues
remain an important and constantly unsolved problem. Despite the activity of international organizations, governments, territorial self-governments and cooperating
institutions that support their activities, the issues of sustainable tourism, generally
and particularly in cities, as well as the threats related to tourism in urban destinations,
are still a problem that is much more often undertaken in scientific and educational
studies than solved in socio-economic practice.
A. Panasiuk (B)
Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Tourism and Sport Management Chair,
Institute of Entrepreneurship, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Łojasiewicza 4, 30-348 Krakow,
Poland
e-mail: aleksander.panasiuk@uj.edu.pl
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer
Nature Switzerland AG 2021
A. Lubowiecki-Vikuk et al. (eds.), Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure
Services, World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4_10
141