Cultural Tourism of School Children

Abstract

The author of the article tries to present the differences existing between a cultural tourist – child and a cultural tourist – adult. The objective of the article is also an attempt to create a profile of “a child cultural tourist”. To answer the following question: Can children be called typical cultural tourists, and can the tourism they participate in be called cultural tourism?, a survey was conducted among children from primary school grades 1-6 (ages 7-12), participating in three chosen cultural offers in the city of Poznań – both in school groups and individually. The results of the research show that children are motivated to participate in tourism and in different forms of educational offer by their parents and schools. Moreover, the level of information remembered by children participating in the offers rises with the children’s age. The obtained results allow the author to state that children age 7-12 have some features, which allow us to call them “child cultural tourists”, nonetheless they differ from the features of adult cultural tourists. Furthermore, those features will help them in future become cultural tourists sensu stricte.