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Former communist countries which in 2004 joined the European Union have recently become popular party tourism destinations. In connection with social and economic transformations following the fall of communism, a public space with the densest concentration of clubs was formed in the centres of big cities. Such a space can be called a party zone. This paper presents such zones delimited in Polish cities and attempts to investigate changes in those zones in 2004-2017, so after the accession to the EU. An additional objective was identifying the most popular clubs based on information from social media and deriving from interviews with DJs. The results lead to two main conclusions: (a) three main types of party zones can be identified in the analyzed cities taking into account their form and relationship to urban space; (b) in 2004-2017 the preferences of clubbing users changed for the benefit of open air clubs.

Former communist countries which in 2004 joined the European Union have recently become popular party tourism destinations. In connection with social and economic transformations following the fall of communism, a public space with the densest concentration of clubs was formed in the centres of big cities. Such a space can be called a party zone. This paper presents such zones delimited in Polish cities and attempts to investigate changes in those zones in 2004-2017, so after the accession to the EU. An additional objective was identifying the most popular clubs based on information from social media and deriving from interviews with DJs. The results lead to two main conclusions: (a) three main types of party zones can be identified in the analyzed cities taking into account their form and relationship to urban space; (b) in 2004-2017 the preferences of clubbing users changed for the benefit of open air clubs.

The aim of the paper is to present the results of a comparative study about cultural ecosystem services (CES ), wellbeing and tourism policies in UK , Finland and Poland in the years 2012–2018. We start with a review of the theoretical background and academic conceptualizations of CES and wellbeing tourism, and go on to review indicative policies at transnational and national levels in selected case countries. We compare the countries' policies related to tourism, wellbeing and CES , and we discuss conceptual linkages between them. The results indicate substantial differences at European level, starting from Finland and UK , where the policies analysed show important linkages between the three study areas, to Poland where tourism, wellbeing and CES are treated separately and with only moderate or weak linkages. We conclude with a discussion of the challenges in transferring CES and wellbeing concepts to different cultural-linguistic and political-administrative national and transnational contexts, but highlight also potential opportunities for transfer of learning and experiences between the countries studied.

The aim of the paper is to present the results of a comparative study about cultural ecosystem services (CES ), wellbeing and tourism policies in UK , Finland and Poland in the years 2012–2018. We start with a review of the theoretical background and academic conceptualizations of CES and wellbeing tourism, and go on to review indicative policies at transnational and national levels in selected case countries. We compare the countries' policies related to tourism, wellbeing and CES , and we discuss conceptual linkages between them. The results indicate substantial differences at European level, starting from Finland and UK , where the policies analysed show important linkages between the three study areas, to Poland where tourism, wellbeing and CES are treated separately and with only moderate or weak linkages. We conclude with a discussion of the challenges in transferring CES and wellbeing concepts to different cultural-linguistic and political-administrative national and transnational contexts, but highlight also potential opportunities for transfer of learning and experiences between the countries studied.

This paper interrogates the intersection between sustainable tourism and community-based tourism (CBT). It is a conceptual paper that unpacks the conceptualization of tourism and traces the emergence of sustainable tourism as one of the responses to conventional/mass tourism. The history of conventional tourism shows that, like any form of tourism, it has both positive and negative impacts on destinations. It is against this backdrop that CBT emerged. To achieve its aim, this article examined the main principles and attributes of CBT in CBT manuals and handbooks, focusing on two key concepts - sustainability and the environment. This examination revealed a significant mismatch in the conception of sustainability, while it is a fundamental requirement in tourism to tackle its negative environmental impacts. Environmental sustainability is considered more implicit in CBT, while it is often less regarded in conventional/mass tourism. We argue that the sustainability of tourism should be an intrinsic and universal principle of all forms of tourism that governments should enforce. The fact that conventional tourism produces most of the environmental damage, it is for this reason that it should elevate its role to become a solid promoter of sustainable measures for environmentally-friendly and sustainability-friendly practices instead.