Język Polski
English
Published
:
2019-06-30
Krakow as a Tourist Metropolitan Area. Impact of Tourism on the Economy of the City
Zygmunt Kruczek
Leszek Mazanek
Abstract
Krakow is one of the most recognizable Polish tourist destinations, has been included in the tourist metropolitan regions. The Old Town in Krakow and the Wieliczka Salt Mine were included in 1978 to the first World Heritage List of Culture and Nature. Krakow was the European Capital of Culture in 2000. It belongs to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, was in 2013 honoured as the UNESCO City of Literature, and the European Gastronomic Academy chose Kraków as the European Capital of Gastronomy Culture in 2019. Tourism in Krakow has a very important economic function. In 2018, Krakow has been visited by as many as 13.5 million people, including over 3 million guests from abroad. In the same year, tourists spent almost PLN 6.5 billion during their stay in Krakow, and the GDP generated by the tourist industry in Krakow is over 8% of the city's total GDP. Tourism gives Krakow 29 thousand permanent jobs, and taking into account multiplier effects, generates over 40,000 of them. In the article, the authors describe the importance of tourism for the city's economy, analyse the size of tourism, income from tourism and employment in tourism, as well as changes in the perception of the tourist offer of the city in the opinion of tourists over the last 10 years. They pay attention to changes in the theme of arrivals and satisfaction related to their visit in Krakow. (original abstract)Keywords:
Tourism, Economy, Metropolitan area, Motivation, Customer satisfactionMost read articles by the same author(s)
- Miłosz Jodłowski, Zygmunt Kruczek, Adam Szromek, Katarzyna Gmyrek, Tourists’ Attitudes towards Visitor Management and Restrictions in the National Parks in the Carpathian Mountains , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 42 No. 2 (2023)
- Bartłomiej Walas, Zygmunt Kruczek, The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism in Kraków in the Eyes of Tourism Entrepreneurs , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 30 No. 2 (2020)
- Agnieszka Nowak, Zygmunt Kruczek, Building cross-border tourism brands: the case of EtnoCarpathia , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 38 No. 2 (2022)
- Zygmunt Kruczek, Krzysztof Borkowski, Leszek Mazanek , Tourism in the region of Małopolska during the COVID-19 pandemic , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 37 No. 1 (2022)
- Zygmunt Kruczek, Leszek Mazanek, Anna Czulińska-Bukowska, The Evaluation of the Demand for Services Provided by Travel Guides and Tour Leaders , Studia Periegetica: Vol. 28 No. 4 (2019)
Details
References
Statistics
Authors
Citation rules
Kruczek, Z., & Mazanek, L. (2019). Krakow as a Tourist Metropolitan Area. Impact of Tourism on the Economy of the City. Studia Periegetica, 26(2), 25–41. https://doi.org/10.26349/st.per.0026.02
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.