Good afternoon!

I have never posted any message on the electronic conferences, because as a young researcher I am trying to see the point of view of my older and more experienced colleagues.

To have some small contribution to the discussion about tourism and biodiversity, especially to messages posted by Jan Marcin and Ferdinando, I would like to present my newest paper that consider aspects of what is beautiful or ugly for people, what is of great importance for people frequenting a beach, and what is not important, what people like or dislike the most. You can simply download this paper from http://www.eucc-d.de/baltcoast2004/papers/Jedrzejczak.pdf.

This preliminary study covers investigations from Polish beaches in 2003. This is also a small focus on people's perception of beach animals. I guess that this paper might be interesting for you. I am not a sociologist, I am marine ecologist, so there is a need to involve sociologists in such investigations. I completely agree with Jan Marcin within this topic. Actually, I am just wondering about presenting this paper at a sociological conference that might be of vivid interest for sociologists.

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