Innovative Local Community Partnership and Sustainable Urban Tourism – The Old Town In Warsaw

Abstract

It is a fact that in the past decades several of Polish towns and cities functioned as popular tourist destinations, but heritage tourism and especially one of its segments – urban tourism – has grown significantly in recent years. As a result of socio-economic transformation, more income, higher levels of education, growing awareness of our country, globalization process (access to EU) and better tourist infrastructure (transport, accommodation) now we can experience bigger tourists interest in our historic cities. Today especially Cracow and Warsaw have been visited by millions of tourists per year. Needless to say that the main attraction for tourists there are the historic centres of these cities, the Old Town in Warsaw and the Old Town in Cracow.

Keywords

• historic cities
• sustainable tourism
• innovate partnership
• local community