Społeczne przesłanki kształtowania się potrzeb rekreacyjnych ludności

The author discuss social premises of formation of recreation needs by individuals and societies. In this article the term „recreation needs” is understood as an isolating social system of demanos and preferences of certain groups of the population with reference to place and method of spending their free time deriving in result of interaction various causative factors. The factors can be divided into two groups: endogeneous and exogenous. The group of endogenous factors is created by those conditions which are somehow internally, integrally connected whith a certain social group. The factors determine the basis of behaviour patterns and preferences. They form psychological-social reaction to stimuli coming from the surrounding and thus a specific evaluation of recreation needs for the given group. This endogenous substratum is overlapped by influence by exogenous factors, such as broadly understood education, propaganda (particularly though mass media), various types of orders and bans of administrative type etc. Only both groups of factors - eindogenous and exogenous - give jointly the picture of desires and preferences of a givan social group which influences the demand for specific forms of tourist-recreation services. The mentioned conditions form a specific system of social preferences with respect to form and place of rest. The preferences should be the basis for organization of recreation centres in specific physical-geographical space and in defined socio-economic conditions.