Piotr Zmyslony and Robert Pawlusiński
This paper aims to depict the evolution of the relationship between tourism and the night-time economy (NTE) from 1946 to 2095.
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to depict the evolution of the relationship between tourism and the night-time economy (NTE) from 1946 to 2095.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper enables the feedback loop concept rooted in general system theory to identify positive and negative feedback loops between tourism and the NTE. The study is based on selective literature on the topic.
Findings
The paper recognises the volatility of positive and negative loops in the past and the dominance of positive feedback loops in the future. This paper also identifies the primary triggers of the feedback loops as technological, economic, environmental, political, social and market.
Research limitations/implications
Selective literature review and abstracting from the impact of other industries on the recognised feedback loops are the main limitations of the study.
Practical implications
The development of both tourism and the NTE should be considered and planned just through the prism of their feedback loops.
Originality/value
The feedback loop concept is proposed to explain the general logic of dynamics of the relationship between tourism and the NTE.
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Robert Pawlusiński and Magdalena Kubal
The growing importance of Krakow as the tourist destination in Eastern Europe has inspired changes in its hospitality industry as early as in the mid-nineteenth century. This…
Abstract
The growing importance of Krakow as the tourist destination in Eastern Europe has inspired changes in its hospitality industry as early as in the mid-nineteenth century. This chapter addresses the following questions – how has the hospitality industry developed during this period? Where did it concentrate? How did the hospitality offer expanded, and was the nature of the competition between owners? Due to the limited availability of historical statistical information on the service industry, the data for this study was derived from guide books, diaries, calendars, and newspapers (“Chronicle of Cracow”) throughout 1848–1939. The authors have examined about 30,500 volumes from which a selection of relevant information and press advertisements was made. Through the examination of historical press announcements for more than 90 years, the authors were able to reproduce the direct location of the hospitality industry objects, their changes of location, the identity of owners, the profile of provided services, and the economic and spatial transformations of the hospitality industry in Krakow.