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Charakter zagrożeń w ruchu turystycznym a skłonność do ubezpieczania się
Travel hazard characteristics and willingness to buy travel insurance policies

Author(s): Maria Forlicz, Tomasz Rólczyński, Julita Markiewicz-Patkowska
Subject(s): Tourism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: risk; insurance; travel hazards;tourist market;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to assess the relationship between obtaining information about hazards (natural or terroristic) appearing in certain touristic region and willingness to increase insurance coverage. A hypothesis was put forward that willingness to buy additional travel insurance policy is different in case of expected terrorist threat from that in case of expected natural threat. Results show that the kind of travel hazard does not influence propensity to buy additional travel policy. Moreover, it was observed that only in case of obtaining information about relatively high probalility of any kind of treat the percentage of subjects willing to buy additional policy was increased.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 500
  • Page Range: 21-32
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish