In view of growing interest of tourists in various sports activities increasing importance of winter sports is also noticeable. Skiing and snowboarding become more and more popular forms of spending spare time by various social age groups. In such situation economic entities operating on tourist market in the discussed disciplines should implement the investment policy aimed at satisfying the demand for services connected with practicing this type of sports and recreational activities.Also territorial self-government authorities should conduct tourist policy in the mountain areas to increase their attractiveness for tourists, among other through investment endeavors in ski infrastructure and para-tourist infrastructure.Discussed has been an analysis of selected elements of infrastructure in the regions of skiing reception in Poland. Tourist market studies have been conducted in three aspects. Studies covered mountain communes which are the areas of skiing reception and ski stations situated in the communes participating in the research. The studies incorporated also an analysis of potential tourist demand represented by skiers and snowboarders. The article contains the analysis of only one fragment of research focused on 64 mountain communes in Poland. Studies on selected elements of mountain commune infrastructure involved among others an analysis of their transport accessibility, general ...
The research addressed the problem of determining conditions for tourism development in the mountain rural areas in Poland. The investigations were conducted with regard to administrative division of Poland; therefore a municipality was the smallest researched unit. The investigations focused on all municipalities in Poland constituting rural disadvantaged areas (determined as mountain ONW areas, a total of 50 municipalities in four provinces: dolnośląskie, malopolskie, podkarpackie and śląskie. Ratio analysis was conducted exclusively for rural areas. The data presented by matching features originated from various sources, mainly including data provided by The Main Statistical Office (for 2003) and the data of the general census (for 2002). Moreover the information was also obtained by means of surveys from the municipalities under analysis. The investigations were carried out by an original method, using a synthetic measure of tourist area development (SMUTRO). Potential applications of the original measure were presented on an example of Stronie Śląskie municipality where individual conditionings were subsequently presented. Four different groups of conditioning were assumed for the analysis of tourism development in the analysed area: infrastructural, economic, environmental and social. The groups were identified due to their role in the area of tourism consumption. The areas of partial conditionings ...
The article analyses spatial differences in the afforestation of agricultural land in the mountain and piedmont areas of Poland. Apart from quantitative and structural changes in the area of new forest plantations, attention was paid to socio-economic determinants of the process of afforestation of agricultural land. The changes considered were those formally registered, which means that areas with a natural succession were not included. The analysis rested on the statistics collected in the Regional Data Bank and basically covered the years 2000-2006, but for private land use was made of the 1996–2006 data. The object of study was mountain and piedmont communes in the Carpathians and Sudeten. The research showed there to be a drop in the area of afforestation of agricultural land over the study period, which resulted from the diminishing area of new forest plantations on both, state-owned and private land in the two regions. This process was undoubtedly connected with the level of financial support, which was clearly evident especially in the case of private land. It was found that the financing of afforestation was a major factor in the rate of this practice. In each of the regions the changes followed a similar pattern, but differed ...
The paper aims at demonstrating the importance of tourism meant as an activity and economic activity in the multifunctional development of mountain rural areas. Multifunctional development of mountain rural areas appears as a composition of other, nonfarm functions, connected with agriculture and its environment. Taking over nonfarm functions by rural areas, including tourist function, enables decreasing agrarian unemployment and, furthermore, the emigration of local population. Approximating living standards of rural communities and city dwellers is connected with modernizing and development of technical-economic and social infrastructure, which has a stimulating impact on the development of off-farm activities in rural areas, which in turn positively affects economic development and increases the number of new jobs. Mutlifunctionality of mountain rural areas is therefore necessary not only from the economic perspective but also from the social point of view. ...
