Chosen aspects of tourism development in mountain rural areas

The studies focus on analysis of chosen conditions of tourism development in mountain rural areas. The article presents studies which covered mountain rural communes of the sląskie province. A total of eight communes were analyzed in view of tourist traffic (Istebna, Jelśnia, Koszarawa, Milówka, Rajcza, Ślemień, Ujsoły and Węgierska Górka), of which only six were selected for further analysis because statistics did not reveal any persons using sleeping facilities in two of them (Koszarawa and Ślemień). The analysis was conducted to determine priorities for extension of technical and economic infrastructure for special purposes in the field of tourism. Analysis of the directions of changes concerns technical and economic infrastructure for special purposes in the field of tourism, including sleeping facilities, catering businesses, health resort infrastructure and tourist infrastructure. On the basis of the analysis it may be stated that a factor inhibiting tourism development in all communes, except Rajcza is the state of health resort facilities. The most backward district in this respect is Milówka. Here, in order to activate tourist traffic extension of sleeping facilities and objects of tourist infrastructure is recommended in the first place. In comparison with the other communes, accommodation facilities are best developed in the ...

Tourist infrastructure in mountain rural areas in Poland

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 ...

Mountain communes’ expenditure for tourism as a factor of tourist traffic intensity in their areas

  The aim of the paper is identification of the relationship between the amount of expenditure for tourism born by mountain communes (gminas) in Poland and intensity of tourist traffic in their areas.The analysis of tourist traffic in mountain communes in Poland in the first place allowed to establish that an average intensity of tourist traffic is greater than generally in Poland. The observation does not refer to the whole of the analyzed area, since tourist traffic reveals a very high concentration, reaching extreme cases in the communes where not a single tourist used bed-places. Registered increase in tourist traffic intensity did not apply to the whole area of mountain communes in Poland. Mountain communes only to some extent get involved in realization of expenditure on tourism - less than half of communes participated in them in 2009 and only few communes spent considerable amounts of money. Average expendi-ture from commune budgets on tourism, both total and per one tourist using bed places in mountain communes, were higher than the average for all communes in Poland.None of the applied methods of identification of correlative dependence al-lowed to establish its occurrence on a significant level, therefore the number of tourists in mountain ...

Mountain areas are rural areas characterized by difficult conditions and orographic, geographical altitude zoning and corresponding volatility indices of hydrological , meteorological and landscape . Relief and climate are the basic criteria for determining membership in the village to the list of mountain resorts in Ukraine. These resorts have significant recreational potential , which can be used for different types of tourism and recreation, especially the rural developing actively in recent years in the villages of Ukraine. Recreational potential of the study area requires an objective assessment of proper planning in order to promote tourism in the territory and optimal use of facilities. This article attempts to identify and analyze the recreational potential of rural areas in the mountainous region of Rozhniatow of Ivano - Frankivsk , taking into account the specificity of the natural region , social facilities and infrastructure , historical and cultural heritage and the state of the surrounding environment as factors affecting the sustainable development of rural areas. For the analysis method was applied points. The aim of the study was to identify and group the rural communities of the degree of development of recreational potential . On this basis the map. Described monuments in the ...