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 article focuses on a widely understood conditions for a tourist development of an area. The conditions comprise both tourist amenities in the areas under analysis with elements of tourist facilities in these areas, the area accessibility by various means of transport and their furnishing with elements of technical and economic infrastructure. Analysed was the problem of relationship between the degree of tourist function development in the area and protected areas situated within its administrative boundaries. The article also discusses the relationship between the degree of tourist function development in the areaunder discussion and tourist policy realized in the form of pollution control investments with particular regard to sewage management, water, air and climate protection, waste management, protection against ionizing radiation, noise and vibration control and protection of biological and landscape diversity, which from the perspective of potential area tourist function development is extremely important and conditions its development. The assessment of the degree of tourist function development in a given area was conducted using indicators characterizing both the degree of tourist facilities management and intensity of tourist traffic. The analysis of dependencies between the naturally valuable areas and amount of pollution control investments and individual provinces ability to fulfill ...
The subject of research were tourist infrastructure facilities in mountain rural areas in Poland. The area covered by the investigations was composed of a total of 50 communes located in four provinces (dolnośląskie, śląskie, malopolskie and podkarpackie). The state of the analysed area management for tourism was assessed on the basis of 29 diagnostic features using the multicriterial analysis. The data characterizing individual phenomena were collected during two periods, i.e. in 2005 and 2007. They originated from various sources including data base of regional branches of the Central Statistical Office (GUS) and from survey studies conducted in the above mentioned years in communal offices, supplemented by the data from websites of the studied communes. The analysis was conducted to assess the state of tourist infrastructure facilities in a selected area, as well as the strength and directions of changes in this respect. Conducted analysis revealed a considerable diversification of communes in respect of tourist infrastructure facilities. In 2007 the best situation was registered in Krynica-Zdrój, whereas the Dobra commune was the most poorly managed in consideration of the above mentioned facilities. Also changes occurring on the level of infrastructural management may be considered significant, particularly because of communes where the ...
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 ...
Spa town are usually areas highly attractive with regard to country lore and their natural environment. The environmental values of each spa influence their efficiency. Environmental values include: elements of tourist infrastructure, tourist attractions, tourist services which are in demand on the tourism market. Two spas from the Kotlina Jeleniogórska have been the subject of the study: Świeradów-Zdrój and Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój. One may consider them to be the more efficient spas in the Lower Silesia region. To a certain degree, they owe the high level of curative services they provide, as well as the standard of their spa infrastructure, to the basic determinants of the area, which influence the spatial features of the spas. These determinants include: sources of therapeutic natural resources (the climate, mineral springs, peats, peloids); green patterns which are unique with regard to their aesthetic, historical and compositional values; the presence of neighbouring large forest complexes, which influence the climatic and therapeutic conditions and which provide an aesthetic background for the spa establishment; the spa's localisation within or in the vicinity of legally protected areas; its localisation in areas traditionally used for leisure; its localisation in ar-eas accessible through public transport (efficient communication routes).
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