It Is Only About Trash Watches? The Meaning
Of Contemporary Fairs: the Case Study
Of the Jarmark Katarzyński in Toruń Cover Image

Czy tylko blaszane zegarki? Znaczenie współczesnych jarmarków-przykład Jarmarku Katarzyńskiego w Toruniu
It Is Only About Trash Watches? The Meaning Of Contemporary Fairs: the Case Study Of the Jarmark Katarzyński in Toruń

Author(s): Stefania Środa-Murawska, Krzysztof Rogatka, Elżbieta Grzelak-Kostulska, Jadwiga Biegańska , Monika Kosmela
Subject(s): Economy, Tourism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Jarmark Katarzyński; fairs; cultural tourism; Toruń

Summary/Abstract: The study aims at showing the multidimensional significance of fairs as a touristattraction from the economic and social point of view on the example of the JarmarkKatarzyński which holds in the city of Toruń. It has been assumed that, despite the totalloss of the traditional impact of fairs, in modern cities fairs can still significantly formthe social and economic life. The impact is completely different from that observed inthe past. However, the directions of the impact of fairs, formed in past centuries, are stillvisible in the modified form in the context of cultural tourism. The research has beenbased on the original data obtained from a survey.

  • Issue Year: 30/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 125-141
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish