Marcin MAZUR, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Konrad CZAPIEWSKI, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Denis CERIC, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Individualism and authenticity are one of the main determinants of postmodernity and contemporary tourists moving away to alternative places. Tourist movement is mostly investigated in a local or subregional scale, emphasising the postmodern shift in the theory, or at a larger scale, still from the assumed quantitative perspective of spatio-temporal intersection of the complex system of tourism characteristics, circumstances or consequences. Both approaches have inherent constraints in understanding the entire system. The paper attempts to reach beyond the first perspective by using more travels’ number on the bilateral relations within the set of 297 NUTS2 regions of EU+UK+EFTA countries, in the pre-pandemic period 2010-2018. The complete and consistent matrix of the travels’ number has been completed by harmonizing data provided by various sources and extending it using geostatistical methods. The general advantage of the number of domestic tourists and some non-obvious significantly attended international tourist relations has been evidenced.
Mots clés : Modelling|Space of flows|Europe|Human mobility|Tourism
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