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 Opawskie Mountains are the most eastern area in the Polish Sudety Mountain-chain. The region has excellent climatic conditions (mostly thanks to mixed woods which cover the hillsides), landscapes and health-resorts. We can as-sume that we are dealing with a big tourism potential here. For the past few years there has been developing well-defined changes in tourism. Although there has been some question about whether this potential is fully used and made the most of. Observation of the facts gives less optimistic answers. So what stands in a way of effective and reasonable exploitation of such a beautiful location? What obsta-cles hold up the growth of tourism including agritourism which is after all an im-portant factor of socio-economic background of each region? The subject of our reflections in this article are important inside problems related to tourism growth around the Głuchołazy community. We also indicate specific areas with particu-larly large potential for development in the context of socio-economic develop-ment for the community and even the whole district. We assume that tourism de-velopment, particularly agritourism should become a leading field of economic development for Głuchogłazy commune which are based in a southern part of the Opawskie Mountains, so ...
