Szlaki questingowe w obszarach miejskich na przykładzie Krakowa

Warcholik, Witold

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Geographica, Tome 13 (2019) no. 1, pp. 97-110.

Résumé

Questing, introduced in mid-90s is considered a relatively novel, innovative form of recreation, sightseeing, creating tourist product and regional education. This paper discusses Cracow’s offer of questing trails as an effective form of city sightseeing and attempts to assess the attractiveness of questing based on the perceptions of participants in a quest project created and shared by the author. A relatively modest offer of freely accessible quests in Cracow, a large urban area and major tourist centre, does not follow current trends in terms of trail numbers or rates of delineating new questing trails. The assumption that new questing trails are created mainly to promote less known elements of the city’s natural and cultural heritage could not be confirmed. The respondents shared the opinion that this form of tourism remains largely unkown in Poland, information leaflets on quests are available mostly only on the Internet, while both the promotion of the method and the interest from tourism organizations or culture institutions are very limited. The participants who completed the test questing trail emphasized its educational values, active engagement of the tourist during the activity/sightseeing as well as the lack of admission fees or need for additional service staff.

Détail

Mots-clés : Kraków; questing; szlak questingowy; turystyka kulturowa; uczestnicy questów
Keywords: Cracow; questing; quest trail; cultural tourism; participants of a questing