Sezonowość w turystyce uzdrowiskowej w województwie zachodniopomorskim

Abstract

The present paper is an assessment of seasonality in health tourism in Zachodniopomorskie voivodeship on the basis of monthly total number of tourists, including foreign tourists, and the number of overnight stays in health resorts in the period 2005–2015. In Zachodniopomorskie voivodeship, there are four health resorts located in the Baltic sea coastal zone, i.e. Świnoujście, Kamień Pomorski, Kołobrzeg and Dąbki, and one located in the zone of terminal moraine of Pojezierze Pomorskie – Połczyn-Zdrój. Seasonality was determined as the quotient of the total number of tourists in summer (June – August) and the number of tourists in winter (December – February), and the respective number of tourists in spring (March – May) and that in autumn (September – November). Irregularity in the distribution of overnight stays in a year was determined with a coefficient of variation (%). The effect of monthly air temperature, cloudiness and wind speed on the number of tourists in health resorts was identified with the use of linear and polynomial regression. Time trends were calculated for the period under analysis with respect to the number of domestic and foreign tourists and overnight stays. The time of stay (in days) of the health resorts tourist was calculated by dividing the number of overnight stays provided for them by the number of tourist in a given month.

Keywords

• health tourism
• trends of change
• seasonality
• meteorological factor