Summary:

The Opawskie Mountains are the most eastern area in the Polish Sudety Mountain-chain. The region has excellent climatic conditions (mostly thanks to mixed woods which cover the hillsides), landscapes and health-resorts. We can as-sume that we are dealing with a big tourism potential here. For the past few years there has been developing well-defined changes in tourism. Although there has been some question about whether this potential is fully used and made the most of. Observation of the facts gives less optimistic answers. So what stands in a way of effective and reasonable exploitation of such a beautiful location? What obsta-cles hold up the growth of tourism including agritourism which is after all an im-portant factor of socio-economic background of each region? The subject of our reflections in this article are important inside problems related to tourism growth around the Głuchołazy community. We also indicate specific areas with particu-larly large potential for development in the context of socio-economic develop-ment for the community and even the whole district. We assume that tourism de-velopment, particularly agritourism should become a leading field of economic development for Głuchogłazy commune which are based in a southern part of the Opawskie Mountains, so on the ground which historically and currently has sig-nificant tourism potential.