Qualified tourism development in the interwar period in Cracow Voivodeship

In the article different issues connected with different forms of qualified tourism development in the interwar period in Cracow Voicodeship were presented. First of all the essence of such understood tourism was defined. The most popular forms of qualified tourism were presented, too. In twenties and thirties of the 20th century these forms were similar to present ones. In this part of the work specialist tourism values, on the base of literature were characterised, too. They allow to practice different forms of qualified tourism. Next, there was a short part of the article related to the history of qualified tourism development from the second part of nineteenth century till the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 on polish territories. In this over 120 years period Poland had been not existed as sovereign country but first forms of mountain tourism and skiing appeared. The most information and problems included in the article were connected with the qualified tourism development in Poland, especially in Cracow Voivodeship in the interwar period. The author described the role of institutional surrounding in the development of this kind of tourism. Some organizations like Polish Tatra Society played a very big role in this period in qualified tourism development, especially in the development of mountain tourism in Tatra Mountains. The Polish Tatra Society built a lot of mountain huts in Poland, especially in Cracow Voivodeship in Tatra Mountains. A mountain hut was kind of accommodation located in the mountains intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers, climbers and hikers. This organization caused to expand tourism and recreation base in Zakopane, too. It was a place from which tourists started to go to the mountains. In this work the role of different publications connected with qualified tourism development in the interwar period were presented, too. Among these positions one should mention about year-book “Wierchy” edited in Cracow