The paper aims at an identification, analysis and assessment of selected tourist development elements in rural areas in Poland according to individual regions. Due to their tourist amenities, for numerous tourists rural areas are a de-sirable place of leisure. Some people prefer hotels, motels or pension houses for accommodation, whereas the others use agrotourist farms. In pursuance of the act on tourist services, hotel facilities are objects which meet the requirements con-cerning their size and equipment, qualifications of the personnel and the scope of services provided as stated for the kind and category to which the object was clas-sified, these facilities must also meet the sanitary, fire and other requirements determined by separate regulations. Localization of sleeping facilities throughout rural areas in Poland is di-versified. In order to ensure the comparability of the obtained results, the absolute data concerning the number of sleeping facilities were presented as an indicator expressing the number of objects per the area of 1 km2. The most important sleeping facilities are hotels. The largest numbers of these are situated in the malopolskie and śląskie provinces, whereas the least number of hotels were registered in the lubelskie and podlaskie provinces. Simi-larly, the most numerous ...
Location is a major factor determining competitive level of today's service providers, including hotels. Location of a company in a specific place is decisive with respect to access of production factors, markets and ensures functioning within network structures. The cognitive objective os the paper is to assess spatial concentration of hotel facilities. The research material used in this paper is sec-ondary and has been acquired as a result of studies of statistics as well as literature of the subject and bibliographic studies. A descriptive method was applies which is one of induction research methods. The research covered all 16 provinces of Poland and the year of 2009. The study covered the following types of hotel facilities: hotels, motels, pensions, camping sites, hostels, youth hostels, overnight lodging facilities and campsites. Florence distribution index was applied to assess the spatial concentration of hotel facilities. The analysis of research results showed a low spatial concentration level of hotel facilities. The level of spatial concentration is differentiated depending on the type of hotel facilities. Overnight lodging facilities have a high spatial concentration level; middle spatial concentration level is characteristic for: youth hostels, pensions, camping sites, campsites and hostels while hotels and motels have low ...
