Tourism Geography of Poland: Attractions, Impacts, and Development

This report provides a detailed analysis of tourism in Poland, exploring its development, attractions, and economic and cultural impacts. It begins by outlining Poland's appeal as a tourist destination, highlighting its natural environment, historical sites, and cultural heritage. The report then delves into specific tourist attractions, including the Tatra Mountains, Krakow, Warsaw, and Wroclaw, discussing the types of tourists they attract and the motivations behind their visits. A significant portion of the report focuses on the current economic value of tourism in Poland, detailing its contribution to GDP, foreign exchange earnings, and employment, with a focus on direct and indirect contributions. Furthermore, the report examines the social and cultural features that enhance Poland's appeal to tourists, such as traditional folk culture, religious influences, music, and festivals. The report concludes with a summary of the various impacts of tourism on Poland, including economic, social, and cultural dimensions. The report also references Poland's integration with the European Union and its impact on tourism. Overall, this report offers a comprehensive overview of the tourism sector in Poland, emphasizing its significance and multifaceted impacts.

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Tourism in Poland
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Explanation of destination..........................................................................................................2
Location of Poland.................................................................................................................2
Development of tourism.........................................................................................................3
Appeal as tourist destination..................................................................................................3
Explanation of tourist attraction.................................................................................................3
Type of tourist attraction........................................................................................................3
Range of visitor type..............................................................................................................4
The motivations for visiting the attraction.............................................................................4
Description of current economic value......................................................................................5
Explanation of social and cultural features................................................................................6
Summary of various impacts of destination...............................................................................7
Economic impact....................................................................................................................7
Social impact..........................................................................................................................7
Cultural impact.......................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The primary goal of this report is to establish the tourism development in the country
of Poland. However, Poland develops as an attractive destination for the tourists due to its
natural environment as well as modern infrastructure (Anisiewicz and Palmowski 2014). Day
by day, this country has developed by improving the culture as well as national heritage
which makes the destination so attractive for the tourists. This Poland country has a multiple
number of tourists destination involving Tatra, Karkonosze, Pieniny Mountains as well as
Stolowe and also Wolin National Park. Moreover, the tourism is considered as key
contributor for this country due to its natural environment and also cultural development.
From the year of 2004, this country is referred as a section of European Union (Błaszczak et
al. 2016). Apart from that, the cultural features as well as social features attract the tourists
and in this way this country has developed in an economic way by developing tourism
services. Throughout this report, it has to explain the tourism attraction of this destinations,
current economic value as well as social, economic or cultural impact on this destination.
Explanation of destination
Location of Poland
Poland has developed as a section of the world tourism market with the increment of
numerous tourists (Borodako and Kozic 2016). Moreover, from the investigations, it has been
examined that tourism contributes most of the part of the country’s economy. The topography
of this country is determined by the location in the central Europe. In addition to this, the
country is bounded by Baltic Sea as well as Lithuania. In the north side, there exists
Kaliningrad Oblast and to the east, it contains Ukraine. Moreover, Slovakia and also Czech
Republic belong to the south part of this country and also Germany fits to the west side of
Poland.

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Development of tourism
After joining with the European Union in 2004, this country has developed as a tourist
destination and as a result, the tourism contributes most of the part of this country’s economy.
Due to having such wonderful natural environment which varies from the mountains to the
sandy beach, it involves for attracting a number of visitors (Czajkowski et al. 2014).
According to the overall country of Poland, most of the visitors are interested to go to the
capital city of this country i.e. Krakow for its architecture style. Moreover, this destination is
considered as one of the vital tourist zone for occurrence of royal coronations of Polish
Kings. In addition to this, another destination is Wroclaw which is also considered as tourist
destination for having its huge market along with two number of city halls and also
Zoological Gardens. Another attracting cities involve Gdansk, Poznan, Lublin, Torun etc.
Appeal as tourist destination
Mainly Poland is incorporated with European Union from the year of 2004 due to
having its natural environment like having of mountains and also sandy beaches, cultural
development, heritage improvements (Debicka and Oniszczuk-Jastrzabek 2014). In this way,
this country becomes more appealing to the tourists for the improvement of the infrastructure
nationwide which includes several roads as well as hotels etc. Due to the development of
tourisms, it enhances the high value of the customers’ services within this overall country.
Explanation of tourist attraction
Type of tourist attraction
Since Poland has a variation of high hills as well as sandy beaches and also
architectural varieties, therefore these are too much advantageous for the visitors (Filimonau
et al. 2018). The top tourists’ attractions in Poland country includes Tatra Mountains,
Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdansk etc. Fundamentally, Poland has developed as a tourist

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destinations due to having range of hills as well as magical atmosphere and also splendid
architecture. Moreover, the cultural impact of this country also reflects on the development of
tourism in Poland.
Type of tourists
The tourists may be classified in accordance with such specific factors. The tourists
are classified into four categories such as:
 Business as well as professional tourists
 Leisure as well as holiday tourists
 Tourists who are travelling with families or friends
 Youth tourists like backpackers
Though Poland is located in the centre point of Europe, therefore this destination is
considered as ideal for organizing meetings. Due to organizing a number of business
meetings, the business as well as professional tourists are interested to go in Poland. Due to
having several tourist attractions in Poland, these particular type of tourists including leisure
or holiday tourists or family tourists come this destination. Moreover, the youth tourists or
backpackers also have an interest for coming to this destination to get some adventures or
experiences or excitement etc.
Range of visitor type
After joining with European Union in 2004, the Poland country has become a tourist
spot because of its magical climate (Kapera 2018). Most of the tourists attract to Poland for
having its natural environment as well as historical spots and also cultural events. As a result,
it displays a scenario of visiting of million customers in Poland from the overall world. As
per the data analysis, it has been seen that 15.7 million visitors was visited in Poland in the
year of 2006 and 15 million in 2007. The overall visitors including foreign visitors it was

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66.2 million. Moreover, in the year of 2012, this country was visited by the type of foreign
tourists with a number of 13.5 million (Kordowska and Kulczyk 2014). Though a high
amount of visitors was visited in Poland, but they did noy stay at nights. According to the
recent data analysis, Poland amounted to the 80.5 million in which only 17.5 million tourists
visit for only tourism purposes including night stay.
The motivations for visiting the attraction
Based on the type of attractions, Tatra Mountains are considered as the most
attractable place mountain range as well as waterfalls and also valleys. The reason of
attraction of this destination is only having beautiful landscape as well as originality of folk
culture (Kronenberg 2016). Another destination is Krakow which is responsible for having its
magical atmosphere as well as splendid architecture and also number of castles or churches.
Warsaw is attractable for consuming its massive palace of culture and also science. Also,
Wroclaw is considered as tourist destination for consisting its historical architecture.
Description of current economic value
By happening the development of the tourism, the Poland country has developed in
the sector of economy as well as finance. Before integrating with European Union, the Euro
was considered as the official economy of Poland (Majewska 2015). But after integrating
with European Union, Poland accelerates the economic growth by developing its cultural as
well as social improvements. The economy of this country earns more foreign currency than
the local currency because of more comings of tourists in this destination.
Moreover, the foreign exchanges are considered as the important indicator of
increasing economy. From the tourism, the total contribution of the governmental sectors are
categorised into two parts such as direct contributions and also indirect contributions.
According to the direct contribution, it contains income taxes of tourism development as well

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as business oriented tourism like travel agencies or public boats etc. and also direct taxes on
tourists like departure taxes (Majewska 2015). According to the indirect contributions, it
employs the taxes of the products or services that are supplied for the tourists and as an
example, accommodation and also food.
Apart from that, due to having the natural environment, it helps to enhance the tourist
attraction for the country of Poland. In this case, the environment acts as an asset for the
country which is utilized by tourism industry and for that, it is considered as the actual reason
for accelerating the economy of this country (Marschall 2016). Moreover, for developing the
economy of this country, the informal employment is also referred as essential factor like
street vendors as well as informal guides or rickshaw drivers. However, the multiplier is also
referred as the factor of the economy development because this multiplier can be divided into
three categories like direct expenditure, indirect expenditure and also induced expenditure.
Since, Krakow is considered as the capital city of Poland, therefore for this city, the
tourism plays as an essential economic function. However, according to tourism statistics, it
has assumed that in the year of 2018, almost 13.5 million people visit this location and as a
result, for staying in this location, the tourists spent approximately 6.5 billion PLN.
Therefore, due to this tourism, the new GDP is generated which is almost over 8% of the
overall GDP of the city. This tourism helps to provide this city along with 29,000 jobs.
Similarly, in the case of Wroclaw, this city is also considered as an important hub of
economy in terms of culture as well as science and also tourism. Over three previous years,
this region is received almost PLN 2.5 billion with the help of tourism and as a result, the
increment of GDP happens over 60% among the overall city.
Based on the statistics of Poland, in the year of 2010, the economic growth rate of this
country was 3.7% and it was considered the greatest result in all over the Europe

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(Mazurkiewicz-Pizlo 2016). Later, in 2014, the economy was developed with the rate of
3.3% and 3.8% in 2015. In 2017, the development of the economic level of this country was
5.2% as stated by officially. Depending on the statistics of 2019, the growth of Poland
economy has increased over 28 years and the economy of this country is a highest record in
EU. Moreover, this economy has also crossed the Australian economy within world
economy.
Explanation of social and cultural features
Due to the rapid industrialization as well as urbanization, the traditional folk helps to
develop the tourism. The regional dress as well as regional culture attracts lots of tourists for
developing the tourism industry. Apart from that, Roman Catholic Church helps to preserve
the religious fundamentals of the folk culture by which several tourists can attract (Nowak
and Chalimoniuk-Nowak 2015). Moreover, there also exist lots of folk music as well as folk
dancing which is considered as the cultural impact of this country. In addition to this, various
musical festivals as well as traditional festivals including a variety of traditional dishes attract
lots of tourists.
According to the cultural features, there exists such features like languages as well as
holidays and also education or food or recreation etc. Depending on the cultural languages,
one of the important language like West Slavic Language that is the natural language of
Poland. According to the holidays, there includes multiple number of holidays like New
Year’s Day nin 1st January, Labor day in 1st May, Assumption day in 15th August,
Independence day in 11th November in this Poland country. In the case of education sector,
the education of this country is mandatory and it starts from the age of six or seven with the
admission in Kindergarten.

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It is compulsory for this country to continue the education at least for nine years.
According to the diet, the important diet of this country is considered as meat (Studzieniecki,
Palmowski and Korneevets 2016). Within this country, Pork is considered as the popular
meat and the local people of this county eat meat along with the process of fry and also
breaded pork cutlet with the thick sauce. According to the natural environment, the
atmosphere of this country is cool in nature and also dark as well as romantic.
Summary of various impacts of destination
Economic impact
As being a tourist destination, Poland has developed in terms of tourism development
by improving their cultural as well as social impact. Due to having more destination places
like Tatra Mountains, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdansk etc., lots of people are interested
to come in this country. The comings of the number of tourists are increasing day by day.
Moreover, the tourists are considered as economic factors for this country because the
increasing of the tourists reflects as economic impact on this country. It helps to enhance the
economic sector of Poland. Moreover, for the tourism development, due to the foreign
exchange, it also helps to increase the economic growth of this country.
Social impact
According to the social impact, most of the tourists attract with a variety of social
features. Because of the rapid industrialization as well as urbanization, the traditional folk
involves to create an interest in the travellers’ mind and for that it reflect on the social impact
on this country. The catholic churches as well as folk cultures and also folk music helps to
increase an interest in tourists’ mind for taking their attraction. This activities helps to
exchange the social features between the local region and other regions from where the
tourists’ come.

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Cultural impact
According to the cultural analysis, the tourists have known various cultural features
after coming in this country (Źróbek et al. 2015). For that, it helps to exchange the
information of cultural features between the local people and the visitors. Because the visitors
have known various information regarding the cultural features of this country and for that, it
helps to get the popularity to the cultural features of Poland. Developing the interest in
travellers’ mind, it helps to enrich the development of the tourism industry.
Conclusion
At the ending part, this report can be finished in this way which includes that Poland
is one of the popular tourists’ destination by enhancing the tourism industry. After integrating
with European Union, this country has developed by increasing the number of tourists. Due
to being the geographical location of this country in Central Europe, this helps to improve the
tourist development. Additionally, the development of the tourism also create an economic
impact on this country as because considering the tourism industry as economic factor. For
that, this industry contributes most of the part of the economy of Poland. However, Poland
has lots of cultural as well as social features which helps to attract the tourists for coming this
country. Not only having the social and also cultural features but also it contains natural
environment, mountains, sandy beaches which helps to attract a number of tourists. In this
way, Poland is considered as splendid tourist destination by developing tourism industry.

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