Abstract
The main aim of the article is the assessment of development prospects for the industrial heritage protection institutions in Poland on the example of the Gorny Śląsk region. To achieve this aim, the paper presents the results of the SWOT analysis and the PESTEL analysis of the International Documentation and Research Centre on Industrial Heritage for Tourism. According to the obtained results, the Centre’s strengths – including the financial support from the Zabrze City Office – and the opportunities in the form of increasing popularity of industrial tourism allow for a positive assessment of the Centre’s development prospects. Nevertheless, its continued existence and development require a complete strategy and its consistent implementation.
Highlights
The industrial heritage protection is an important and up-to-date topic in the historical, social and civilisation context [Ifko 2016, pp. 2040–2045]
Among the most important is the location within the industrial agglomeration, allowing direct access to the industrial heritage and opening the opportunity to take advantage of the industrial experience of the region’s inhabitants, managers of undertakings or managers of economic institutions [Cercleux et al 2012, pp. 216–225]
Key opportunities include the possibility of the initially established cooperation with national and foreign institutions dealing with industrial heritage and tourism
Summary
The industrial heritage protection is an important and up-to-date topic in the historical, social and civilisation context [Ifko 2016, pp. 2040–2045]. From the region’s perspective, having such achievements is a tourist and cultural attraction allowing to increase the recognition and improve the image of local government units. In Poland, promoting the industrial heritage is not centralised and institutionalised and takes place mainly within the individual actions of local government units in the field of. This paper proposes the establishment and activation of the International Documentation and Research Centre on Industrial Heritage for Tourism by the Zabrze city authorities. In such perspective, the main aim of the article is the assessment of development prospects for the industrial heritage protection institutions in Poland on the example of the Górny Śląsk region.
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