The Selected Aspects of Tourism Development – an Example of the Świętokrzyskie Province

Abstract

Tourism belongs in to the most important elements of multifunctional development of rural areas.The main goal of this study is to assess conditions for tourism development with special emphasis on demographic, economic and infrastructural processes. The study has been based on the data from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office of Poland and focused on the period of 2002–2012. The area of the study the rural areas of the Świętokrzyskie Province.

Keywords

• demographic potential
• economic potential
• infrastructure