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Tourist attractiveness of Central-European metropolies
Author(s) -
Marta Drozdowska
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
visnyk of the lviv university series geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2415-7201
pISSN - 2078-6441
DOI - 10.30970/vgg.2013.43.1690
Subject(s) - attractiveness , slovak , tourism , czech , metropolitan area , geography , regional science , ranking (information retrieval) , economy , political science , archaeology , economics , computer science , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , psychoanalysis , machine learning
To careful analysis eleven metropolises from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary were chosen. Identified cities are the Metropolitan European Growth Areas (MEGAs) such as: Warszawa, Szczecin, Gdańsk, Poznań, Łódź, Wrocław, Kraków, Bratislava, Budapest, Praha and Brno. The paper ranks selected metropolises according to the Tourism Attractiveness Index (TAI), which scores from 1 to 5 the performance of a given metropolis in four Subindexes: cultural resources, ranking in the international sources of tourist information, transport accessibility, accommodation establishments. Praha is indisputable leader ranked out of all Central-European metropolises in the TAI, followed by Budapest and Kraków. Key words: tourist attractiveness, Central Europe, metropolis.

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