Marek Kozak

Innovation, Tourism and Destination Development: Dolnośląskie Case Study

Abstract There is more to success in destination development than just natural or cultural heritage and assets. Increasing globalization and changes in the realm of tourism, both in supply and demand, helped to identify and recognize new development factors. Skilful application of various drivers and mobilization of stakeholders around well-defined development objectives may bring unique results in terms of creating a multidimensional, complex and innovative mega-product. Until now, public administration has been unable to identify timely innovative features and the high promotional and social potential in the Palaces and Gardens Valley project. Instead, the main drivers behind its success have, therefore, to be sought outside public policies, among new development factors utilized by private sector and non-governmental organizations. However, in the long run, recently intensifying close cooperation of public and private bodies is a condition of further development of the project in question.

Making Trails: Horses and Equestrian Tourism in Poland

This article is devoted to the issues of contemporary equestrian tourism in Poland and the factors determining its current state, as well as development opportunities and barriers. Using extensive literature sources, limited statistical data and estimations, as well as the opinions expressed by leading experts in the field, the author addresses the current situation of equestrian tourism in Poland and the possibility of assessing its impact on local/regional development, thus contributing to the discussion about global and local arenas, and glocalization (A term introduced by Japanese economists in the 1980s and popularised by Robertson (1997) who understood it as the co-presence of both universalising and particularising tendencies). Today, it is understood mostly as the adaptation of a global product for a local market (which helps increase sales), yet the author prefers Robertson’s definition, as a form of protection against increasing globalization.

Zwiększanie partycypacji społecznej w planowaniu przestrzeni: polskie doświadczenia

Jedną ze słabości polskiego systemu rozwoju jest niski poziom integracji (czyli niski poziom kapitału ludzkiego i społecznego, niskie zaufanie do innych osób i instytucji), skutkujący ograniczonym poziomem partycypacji społecznej i słabszymi rezultatami podejmowanych działań. Jak dotąd w programach i projektach publicznych partycypacja społeczna była z reguły ograniczona do konsultacji poprzedzających podjęcie interwencji, przy czym tylko wtedy, gdy było to wymagane (czyli np. w polityce spójności). Obecnie UE oczekuje aby partnerstwo było stałym i trwałym elementem poszczególnych polityk i programów na każdym etapie pracy (od planowania przez realizację, po zamykanie i rozliczanie efektów).