Open AccessThe Polish Baltic coast as a tourist area in the light of tourism indicators
Author(s) -
Krzysztof Parzych
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia periegetica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-1736
pISSN - 1897-9262
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.6595
Subject(s) - tourism , geography , index (typography) , accommodation , traffic volume , regional science , physical geography , transport engineering , archaeology , engineering , neuroscience , world wide web , computer science , biology
The Polish coast is located at a considerable distance from the main areas of leisure tourism in Europe. In recent years this area has seen a significant growth in tourist accommodation and tourist traffic. The aim of this study was to analyse the quantitative and spatial differentiation of tourist traffic in the Polish coast. The analysis is based on statistical data from the Local Data Bank (BDL) maintained by Statistics Poland (GUS) about all seaside municipalities for which there is data on tourist arrivals. The author focuses on the most commonly used indicators of tourism activity: Baretje-Defert’s index of the tourism development, Schneider’s index of tourism intensity, Charvat’s index of intensity of tourist traffic and Defert’s index of tourist traffic density (based on data for 2014, except the number of tourist beds for 2019 year). The author found significant differences in the volume of tourist traffic across Polish coastal municipalities and between the Polish coast as a whole and other coastal areas in other European countries.