IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ers/journl/vxxiiy2019i4p379-387.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tourist Competitiveness of Polish Rural Areas

Author

Listed:
  • Piotr Kulyk
  • Agnieszka Brelik

Abstract

Purpose: The process of diversifying economic activity in rural areas and incorporating new non-agricultural and non-production functions into the rural space is currently one of the key determinants of development in these areas. A comparative assessment of Poland's competitiveness against selected European countries has been made in the study. The main objective was to present the conditions of international tourist competitiveness of rural areas in Poland in comparison to other European areas. Design/Methodology/Approach: An in-depth analysis of Poland's competitiveness as a tourist region against the European countries was carried out taking into consideration individual indicators of the second pillar. The study uses a synthetic tourist competitiveness index and panel regression to demonstrate the determinants of this phenomenon. Findings: On the basis of the conducted research, it has been shown that the natural and landscape value of Poland's agricultural areas is highly assessed on a European scale. Therefore, for many consumers in the European Union, Poland is increasingly seen as an attractive region for tourists. At the same time, the importance of these factors in the demand for tourist places has been demonstrated by distinguishing selected aspects of these conditions. Economic factors affecting internal demand as well as environmental and institutional conditions turned out to be the key ones. Practical Implications: The presented considerations are of great importance for practical reasons. They constitute an indicator which, under certain conditions can influence the increase of tourist competitive attractiveness of rural areas in an international perspective. Therefore, they allow to indicate the proper structure of investments and activities aimed at valuing public goods by both private and public entities. Originality/Value: The development of rural areas in the current conditions requires the development of non-agricultural and non-production functions. The article indicates the importance of individual resources and conditions in the proposed model. Not only was their role emphasized, but mutual relations between the factors considered were determined.

Suggested Citation

  • Piotr Kulyk & Agnieszka Brelik, 2019. "Tourist Competitiveness of Polish Rural Areas," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4), pages 379-387.
    • Handle: RePEc:ers:journl:v:xxii:y:2019:i:4:p:379-387
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.ersj.eu/journal/1515/download
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Sanagustín Fons, M. Victoria & Fierro, José A. Moseñe & Patiño, María Gómez y, 2011. "Rural tourism: A sustainable alternative," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(2), pages 551-557, February.
    2. Massidda, Carla & Etzo, Ivan, 2012. "The determinants of Italian domestic tourism: A panel data analysis," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 603-610.
    3. Panyik, Emese & Costa, Carlos & Rátz, Tamara, 2011. "Implementing integrated rural tourism: An event-based approach," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(6), pages 1352-1363.
    4. Holzner, Mario, 2011. "Tourism and economic development: The beach disease?," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 922-933.
    5. Thomas Reardon & J. Edward Taylor & Kostas Stamoulis & Peter Lanjouw & Arsenio Balisacan, 2000. "Effects of Non‐Farm Employment on Rural Income Inequality in Developing Countries: An Investment Perspective," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(2), pages 266-288, May.
    6. Nikolaos Dritsakis, 2012. "Tourism Development and Economic Growth in Seven Mediterranean Countries: A Panel Data Approach," Tourism Economics, , vol. 18(4), pages 801-816, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ana Paula Lopes & Nuria Rodríguez-López, 2022. "Application of a Decision-Making Tool for Ranking Wellness Tourism Destinations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-19, November.
    2. Marek Walancik & Janusz Morbitzer, 2021. "Symbols of Multiculturalism in the Public Space of a Border Town," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(Special 4), pages 960-970.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Antonakakis, Nikos & Dragouni, Mina & Eeckels, Bruno & Filis, George, 2015. "Tourism and economic growth revisited: Empirical evidence from a Panel VAR approach," MPRA Paper 67419, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Jorge V Pérez-Rodríguez & Heiko Rachinger & María Santana-Gallego, 2022. "Does tourism promote economic growth? A fractionally integrated heterogeneous panel data analysis," Tourism Economics, , vol. 28(5), pages 1355-1376, August.
    3. Salahodjaev, Raufhon & Safarova, Nilufar, 2015. "Do foreign visitors reward post-communist countries? A panel evidence for tourism-growth nexus," MPRA Paper 66215, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Antonakakis, Nikolaos & Dragouni, Mina & Filis, George, 2013. "Time-Varying Interdependencies of Tourism and Economic Growth: Evidence from European Countries," MPRA Paper 48715, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Ngozi Helen Oguchi & Fen Luo, 2021. "Estimating the Nexus of Tourism on Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria," Technium Social Sciences Journal, Technium Science, vol. 20(1), pages 751-771, June.
    6. Herman Sahni & Christian Nsiah & Bichaka Fayissa, 2021. "The African economic growth experience and tourism receipts: A threshold analysis and quantile regression approach," Tourism Economics, , vol. 27(5), pages 915-932, August.
    7. Lijuan Zhang & Azizan Marzuki & Zhenjie Liao, 2023. "The coordination pattern of tourism efficiency and development level in Guangdong Province under high-quality development," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-10, December.
    8. Ceyhun Can OZCAN & Murat ASLAN & Saban NAZLIOGLU, 2017. "Economic freedom, economic growth and international tourism for post-communist (transition) countries: A panel causality analysis," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania / Editura Economica, vol. 0(2(611), S), pages 75-98, Summer.
    9. Konstantakopoulou, Ioanna, 2022. "Does health quality affect tourism? Evidence from system GMM estimates," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 425-440.
    10. Taizeng Ren & Muhlis Can & Sudharshan Reddy Paramati & Jianchun Fang & Wanshan Wu, 2019. "The Impact of Tourism Quality on Economic Development and Environment: Evidence from Mediterranean Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-17, April.
    11. João Romão & João Guerreiro & Paulo M. M. Rodrigues, 2016. "Tourism growth and regional resilience," Tourism Economics, , vol. 22(4), pages 699-714, August.
    12. Romão, João, 2020. "Tourism, smart specialisation, growth, and resilience," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    13. Geng-Nan Chiang & Wei-Ying Sung & Wen-Guu Lei, 2017. "Regime-Switching Effect of Tourism Specialization on Economic Growth in Asia Pacific Countries," Economies, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-14, June.
    14. Jan Fałkowski & Maciej Jakubowski & Paweł Strawiński, 2014. "Returns from income strategies in rural Poland," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 22(1), pages 139-178, January.
    15. Nikolaos Apostolopoulos & Panagiotis Liargovas & Stavros Stavroyiannis & Ilias Makris & Sotiris Apostolopoulos & Dimitrios Petropoulos & Eleni Anastasopoulou, 2020. "Sustaining Rural Areas, Rural Tourism Enterprises and EU Development Policies: A Multi-Layer Conceptualisation of the Obstacles in Greece," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-19, September.
    16. Marrocu, Emanuela & Paci, Raffaele, 2013. "Different tourists to different destinations. Evidence from spatial interaction models," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 71-83.
    17. Kimenju, Simon C. & Tschirley, David L., 2008. "Agriculture and Livelihood Diversification in Kenyan Rural Households," Working Papers 202614, Egerton University, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development.
    18. Ronald Kumar, 2014. "Exploring the role of technology, tourism and financial development: an empirical study of Vietnam," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 48(5), pages 2881-2898, September.
    19. Ngassam, Sylvain B. & Asongu, Simplice A. & Ngueuleweu, Gildas Tiwang, 2024. "A revisit of the natural resource curse in the tourism industry," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    20. Salah Eddine Sari Hassoun & Khayereddine Salim Adda & Asma Hadjira Sebbane, 2021. "Examining the connection among national tourism expenditure and economic growth in Algeria," Future Business Journal, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 1-9, December.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Rural economics; tourism competitiveness.;

    JEL classification:

    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
    • Z3 - Other Special Topics - - Tourism Economics

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ers:journl:v:xxii:y:2019:i:4:p:379-387. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Marios Agiomavritis (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ersj.eu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.