Comparative studies of the tourist attractiveness of Polish powiats with regard to their surroundings

Abstract

The main aim of the article is to describe the method of including powiats’ surrounding area in the Polish research. In such analyses, information from beyond the examined area have not been considered so far. For the purposes of the study, a procedure was developed for setting the value of indicators including the resources from both a certain powiat and its’ surrounding area, which was determined according to consistent and transparent criteria. The exemplification of the method was presented for the cultural attractiveness index, which is one of the tourist attractiveness index components.