Transformations and the Level of Tourist Function Development in Polish Voivodeship Capital Cities

• Main Authors: Katarzyna Przybyła, Alina Kulczyk-Dynowska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
• Series: Sustainability
• Subjects: city tourist functions; city economic base; synthetic measure
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/6/2095

The article discusses transformations of the tourist function in Polish voivodeship capital cities in the period between 2005–2015. The first research stage was carried out through the background of the theory of city economic base using two indicators: index of surplus workers (ISW) and Florence specialisation coefficient (FSC). The conducted research covered employment size, structure, and changes, with a particular emphasis on employment in tourism. In the second stage of the study, based on a group of diagnostic characteristics describing the tourist functions performed by cities, taxonomic measures were constructed to determine the level of these functions’ development.