Participation in International Robotics Competitions as a New Form of Student Travel

Wieczorek Luiza (), Piech Wiktor (), Cybulski Bartłomiej (), Kujawiński Mateusz () and Węgierska Agnieszka ()
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Wieczorek Luiza: Institute of Earth Science, Department of Meteorology and Climatology
Piech Wiktor: University of Lodz, Institute of Earth Science, Department of Geomorphology and Palaeogeography
Węgierska Agnieszka: Lodz University of Technology,Institute of Automatic Control

Turyzm / Tourism, 2018, vol. 28, issue 2, 63-72

Abstract: The article presents opportunities for foreign travel by students based on trips to international competitions, in particular robotic competitions. As the data collected show, these have attracted several thousand participants in recent years. The article presents an additional effect of participation in such competitions which is tourism during the trips.

Keywords: competition tourism; United States; students; mars rover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/tour-2018-0016

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