Artykuł stanowi pierwszą próbę w miarę kompleksowego nakreślenia dziejów i rangi jednego z najważniejszych polskich periodyków z zakresu geografii – „Czasopisma Geograficznego”. Jako tekst przeglądowy artykuł ten prezentuje złożoną historię „Czasopisma”, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem początkowych okresów jego funkcjonowania. Przedstawiono w nim wszystkie blaski i cienie obserwowane w działalności pisma, podkreślono brutalny wpływ decyzji politycznych na chwilowy upadek znaczenia periodyku w latach 50. XX w. Zwrócono uwagę na aktywność kolejnych redaktorów, wybitnych geografów, którym udało się przywrócić „Czasopismu” należne mu miejsce w geografii polskiej i światowej. Treści tego opracowania autorzy zaprezentowali na Kongresie Geografii Polskiej w Poznaniu 1 czerwca 2023 r.

W artykule podjęto próbę nakreślenia początków piśmiennictwa turystycznego i krajoznawczego, którego autorami byli profesorowie i wychowankowie Akademii Krakowskiej. Większość stanowią dzieła geograficzne i kartograficzne. Spośród wielu autorów wymienić należy zwłaszcza Jana Długosza, Wawrzyńca Korwina, Jana z Głogowa, Macieja z Miechowa (Miechowity), Bernarda Wapowskiego, Marcina Kromera.

The paper discusses the fate of the discipline of geography in Poland under Nazi occupation during World War II. The war interrupted the development of geographical research and education initiated in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. Schools, universities, research centres and libraries were shut down by the new German ‘administrator’. The geographical community was one of the groups of intellectuals that the Nazis targeted with many destructive measures to prevent a possible revival of an independent Polish state and to prevent uprisings against the German occupiers. Despite the dangers, Polish geographers developed underground teaching programmes and continued to undertake research. This paper details the structure and functioning of the underground geography teaching and research programme in Nazi-occupied Poland, including a focus on the research and teaching carried out in POW camps and concentration camps.

The article deals with terminology issues in religtous tourism. The importance of pilgrimage in the contemporary world is highlighted, as well as those elements which determlne the phenomenon. Research concepts in religious tourism are analysed theoretically and relaUons between religious tourism and pilgrimage are presented. The need to draw a precise deflnitlon of religious tourism and to determlne its research area is also stressed.

: The article discusses the issue of the so-called ‘Jasna Gora lie’, which appeared on 2 September 1939 in the Polish and world media. The initiators of this undertaking were well aware of the importance of Jasna Góra and the miraculous image of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland, as well as of the role it played in the process of cementing national consciousness. The relayed message conveyed false information that the Germans had demolished the sanctuary and profaned the miraculous icon. News quickly leaked out to the international public opinion. The news from Czestochowa was featured in French, Belgian, Swedish, Italian and American newspapers on the front pages. The Germans reacted very quickly to the outbreak of world outrage. This matter was personally supervised by Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich. As a matter of urgency, on 4 September he sent to Czestochowa the famous American journalist Ludwig ‘Louis’ Paul Lochner, who was to testify that the monastery of Jasna Gora was undamaged and that the miraculous icon was still availa-ble to the faithful. At the same time, Goebbels’ propaganda showed the Germans as a noble and civilized nation that took holy places under their special care. Most historians believe that the provocation was prepared by the Germans themselves. The author of the article proposes a hypothesis that the Polish authorities could have been behind the Częstochowa rumor. Perhaps the tragic news from Częstochowa was supposed to raise the morale of the society, especially Polish soldiers. In the early days of the war there was yet another, half-legendary event. It was related to the attempt to destroy the monastery and the city by the German air force. For this purpose, three squadrons of combat aircraft took off on 1 September from the Pawelwitz Airport (today’s Pawlowice, part of Wroclaw), heading for Częstochowa. None of them ever reached the target. From the beginning of the war, there was a related social message about the ‘miraculous defence of Czestochowa’. The presented events caused the fact that in the early days of World War II Jasna Gora was at the centre of interest of almost the whole world. Afterwards, the Germans were very careful to retain the image of the monastery as a normally functioning sanctuary. It was mainly owing to this incident that Jasna Góra managed to go through the period of occupation with relatively little losses.

The beginning of the twentieth century was a time of intensive development of geographical research on tourism, as well as the establishment of tourism research centers in many European countries. The Jagiellonian University School of Tourism played an important role in the development of tourism geography and education, spatial and regional planning, and personnel training for tourism developing in the 1930s in Poland. Tourism education in the school was characterized by a modern curriculum and forms of teaching, including fieldwork, focusing on developing practical skills, and linking research topics with the teaching process. The school conducted extensive research, publishing and documentary activities. The achievements of the Jagiellonian University School of Tourism helped raise awareness in society of the importance of tourism in the socio-economic development of regions and cities. This article presents the history of the Jagiellonian University School of Tourism and highlights its role in the development of tourism research and education in Europe. The school is mentioned among the pioneering centers of tourism, i.e., Robert Glucksmann's Tourism Research Institute at the Berlin School of Commerce, Walter Hunziker's and Kurt Krapf's tourism seminar in St. Gallen, and Raoul Blanchard's Institute of Alpine Geography in Grenoble.

The article describes briefly the life and fundamental work of Rudzki in geology, geography, seismology, oceanography and meteorology. In 1895 he became head of the world's first department of geophysics and meteorology at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, the second oldest university north of the Alps (Prague being the oldest).

The exhibition was mounted for the International Geographical Union’s Regional Conference held in Kraków on August 18-22, 2014, and remained open until January22, 2015. It attracted a total of 10,585 visits, and was the first exhibition of its kind in Poland. The exhibition will feature key examples of the tradition of Polish geographical thought from the Middle Ages to through to contemporary times. The exhibition is documented by old books, maps, geographical instruments and devices and archival materials.

In 1934, the International Geographical Union arrived in Warsaw to attend its Congress which was held between 23rd and 31st August. A decision to accept the offer of the Polish government and meet for the first time in a Slavic country was taken at the previous Congress in Paris, in 1931. The Congress was attended by 693 participants from 44 countries, including 350 from Poland. The programme included 12 regional and thematic excursions and several cartographic exhibitions. Four volumes of Comptes Rendus du CongrE International de Geographie containing the proceedings of the Congress were published between 1935 and 1938.

For decades, we have been witnessing a gradual disintegration of geography. The issue was first flagged at the turn of the 19th century, but the process accelerated in the late 1960s. The term 'geography' has been increasingly replaced with other terms and one of the effects has been a diminishing status of geography in public awareness. Polish geographers attempted to address the problem as early as in the first decades of the 20th century, but these efforts, especially before 1939, remain obscure. Researchers continued their work even during the Second World War when they were often operating in extreme conditions. This scientific heritage has a potential to be used in contemporary work on a new view of geography at a time of increasing globalisation.

Tourism is an interdisciplinary scientific journal. It is one of the few publications in Poland intended for researchers representing a variety of disciplines and dealing with tourism issues, first of all for geographers, economists, sociologists and representatives of social sciences.

Tourism is an interdisciplinary scientific journal. It is one of the few publications in Poland intended for researchers representing a variety of disciplines and dealing with tourism issues, first of all for geographers, economists, sociologists and representatives of social sciences.