Determinants of Tourist Activity of People with Disabilities Living in Rural Areas

Abstract

SummarySubject and purpose of work: The aim of the conducted research and analyzes was the attempt to assess the impact of selected factors over tourist activity of people with disabilities and factors related to the immediate environment of people with disabilitiesMaterials and methods: A total of 5 000 respondents were subjected to the quantitative research. Participants of the research were adults with legally recognized disabilities. In the research, there was used the method of a diagnostic survey.Results: Tourist activity of disabled people living in rural areas in Poland concerns only about 50% of respondents. Leaving the place of permanent residence in a free time is the most often declared by young and middle-aged people with higher, secondary and post-secondary education, professionally active, married people with mental and sensory disabilities.Conclusions: Factors stimulating participation in tourism are the level of education and professional activity of respondents. In the assessment of respondents the important factor is also a general family situation.

Entropy Method for Decision-Making: Uncertainty Cycles in Tourism Demand

“…However, the randomness of a time series presents some problems that classical methods cannot overcome. This is a fundamental assumption that proposes to overcome the traditional barriers of orthodox analysis methods, where conventional tourist causality demand is inferred mainly according to economic (income or prices of products and services), sociological (age, sex or educational level) or seasonal variables (environment or temperature) [3,[44][45][46][47][48]. In this work, we start from the fact that the previous information is characterised by total uncertainty.…”