Cross-border shopping at Polish borders. Tri-city and the shopping potential of Russian tourists

The following paper brings into debate the shopping tourism, as a new leisure activity for a numerous number of tourists, which choose to travel in order to purchase products that are different or cheaper from the ones on their local market. Shopping tourism develops rapidly, not only in the famous cities like Dubai or London, but as well in the cross-border areas, like Tri-City from the northern Poland. With a good mixture of culture, history, and shopping locations, the area attracts numerous shopping tourists from nearby Kaliningrad Oblast

Tomasz Wiskulski