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The Development of Hotel Base in Poland with the Use of Eu Funds

Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW, Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing

The aim of the paper is to present the role of EU funds in the development of hotel base in Poland. Detailed objectives include identification of changes in the structure of hotels, presentation of the value and number of investments in hotels co-financed by the EU funds and assessment of the role of EU funds in building new hotels in Poland. Descriptive, statistical and graphic methods were used. In the analyzed period the number of hotels in Poland changed from 668 in 1995 to 2209 in 2015. The share of most luxurious (5- and 4-star) hotels have developed most. Financial perspective 2007-2013 differed from the previous one, as much more projects involving hotels were implemented: 208 construction or adaptation and 193 development or renovation ones with total EU co-financing of 631,6 million PLN. The highest values of new hotels constructions or adaptations for hotels characterized voivodships dolnośląskie, warmińsko-mazurskie and opolskie, also regions located in eastern Poland. T...

Technical background to the conference tourism in polish accommodation objects

Quality in Sport

Technical background to the conference tourism in polish accommodation objects Abstract An analysis of the technical facilities of conference tourism in accommodation facilities adapted for the organization of conference meetings in Poland and individual voivodships indicates significant spatial differences and a strong concentration of the potential of the technical facilities of conference tourism. The largest number of accommodation facilities equipped with conference rooms, the largest number of conference rooms and the number of places in conference rooms are characterized by the most urbanized voivodships (Masovian/mazowieckie), Lesser Poland/małopolskie, Lower Silesian/dolnoślaskie, Greater Poland/wielkopolskie, Silesian/ślaskie, West Pomeranian/ zachodniopomorskie and Pomeranian), whose main administrative centers are the largest urban agglomerations in Poland. This confirms the general trends of the location of conference tourism and its connections with large urban agglomerations. In addition, hotel facilities adapted to perform the conference function in these voivodships have the best technical facilities for organizing conference meetings. The weakest conference facilities, the smallest number of facilities, rooms, beds and facilities with appropriate technical facilities are characterized by peripheral and poorly urbanized voivodships (Opole Voivodeship, Świętokrzyskie, Podlaskie). The high dynamics of the development of conference tourism in Poland is characteristic, which is confirmed by the clear increase in the number of facilities adapted to perform the function of conference tourism reception, the number of rooms and conference rooms as well as the high dynamics of increase in the technical elements of accommodation facilities adapted to perform the function of the conference. This phenomenon is observable in the country as a whole and in all individual provinces.

Hotel development through centralized to liberalized planning procedures: Prague lost in transition

Tourism Geographies, 2017

Scholars argued for the need of better urban planning procedures in post-socialist Prague in the 1990s. But a society liberated from an oppressive political system where five-year plans defined every aspect of life did not believe in the beneficial power of regulations. Prague just started to profit from the large wave of foreign tourists arriving, and did not want to control the liberal market, trusted to upgrade the obsolete hotel infrastructure created by central planning. Literature documents well this era of transition, bringing into focus more and more the conflicts of tourism development in the historic city, often described as a tourist ghetto. This study demonstrates direct links between the extremities in tourism planning procedures and the criticized touristification process. Prague's hotel development patterns are compared with similar tourist-historic destinations: Budapest and Vienna. The building age and typology was included in the geographical analysis of hotels, revealing more of the extreme consequences of both the era of centralized planning procedures, and of the era of uncontrolled liberalization multiplied by the effects of in kind restitution. Vienna has a totally balanced spatial distribution of hotels showing a linear development through the ages. Budapest faced the same communist period followed by a liberalization process, but the sensibility of the communist regime towards tourism demands and the avoided in kind type of restitution during privatization in the new era kept the hotel development patterns and the tourist space system more balanced. The results of this study contribute to the general understanding of the needs and tools of tourism planning in urban tourism development.

Analysis of hotels – Case study Kosovo

The research deals with the analysis of the Hotels, where as a case study is taken Kosovo. The focus of the study is mainly on the cities the cities with the greatest number of people, namely those which are visited more by tourists. The research is based on analytical method, which helps in the final results. Analyzed in terms of functional buildings architectural, access to the facility, their capacity and conditions that they offer guests. The classification of buildings is done in two groups; a) Hotels built before 1999 and b) Hotels built after 1999. Analysis show that cases of hotels built before 1999, which once met all the requirements in terms of functional and architectural, today some of them lack any of the basic elements, characteristic of a hotel. Furthermore, from analysis that is done few hotels built after 1999, meet the functional elements in terms of interior space, but on the other hand they lack the urban and architectural aspects.

The Role Of Hotel Architecture In Tourism Development. Faculty of Environmental Sciences

The study focuses mainly on Hotel Architecture and the role it plays in tourism development. This is critically x-rayed through the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts of hotel Architecture on tourism development which can be positive or negative especially on the local communities which has direct relation or occupies a central position in the successes or failure of tourism development in any given tourist location.

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY: DESIGN MEETS HISTORIC PROPERTIES

The fast growth cultural tourism has undergone since 1980 is a direct result of the rising interest for art, culture and history, which can be explained by demographic, social and cultural changes. These changes are, at the same time, the direct force behind the emergence of the lifestyle hotel. Taking into account the process of standardisation (box hotels) of the international hotel industry, it reviews the irruption of alternate hospitality models and their consolidation as cultural tourism products, identifying three main product-market combinations: historic establishments, design and design-historic hotels. These productmarket combinations intend to provide an identity-fit to the tourists thus greatly assisting in the cultural tourism experience as a whole. An analysis of the lifestyle hotel product is undertaken in order to give insight into the future of the niche.

The old hotels of Transylvania: heritage tourist resources

Traveling within the Transylvanian hotels history, we discover the persistence of certain stories that even today fascinate thousands of guests from all over the world. The hotel, as tourist establishment with its main function the accommodation, keeps in the urban area, mainly due to the commerce development. An argument is the fact that in Transylvania, the first hotels have started to function in the fair towns: Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca and Brasov, in the central area of the city, nearby the fair. In time, the hotels' functionality has reached another extent. Nowadays, this type of tourist establishment can become a tourist sights itself. The 21st Century tourist is looking for: values of the past, old histories and experiences that the newly and modernly built hotels cannot offer because they have not had centuries to knit their story. The old hotels of Transylvania can be considered resources of cultural tourism due to their architecture, their uniqueness and persistence in time of their own stories. The present study aims to identify the hotels from the 18th and 19th centuries from the main towns of Transylvania, tourist establishments which can represent important tourist resources for the cultural tourism of the studied region.

Cluj Hotels' Distinctive Features

International Conference, Small and Medium Size …, 2005

The City of Cluj was and still is considered to be the 'capital of Transylvania' due to the fact that it is an important cultural and business center. Though, Cluj's historical buildings and sites could not compete with those of Sibiu and Brasov they are interesting; its cultural life is reach and its business opportunities are complex. All those factors make from Cluj an important tourist destination for various type of tourist. But what is the situation of Cluj lodging capacities? Between 1990 and 1999, the number of hotels in Cluj grew slowly from 10 to 17 during this period. By the end of April 2005 we were able to identify 45 operational lodging capacities in Cluj and over 50% were open between 2002 and 2005.

The Individualization of the Hotel as Tourist Attraction in the Urban Area of Transylvania

The purpose of the present study is to emphasize the importance of the hotels as accommodation establishments within the urban area of Transylvania. The study involves ten counties (Alba, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brașov, Cluj, Covasna, Harghita, Hunedoara, Mureș, Sibiu and Sălaj), focusing on their towns. The geographic distribution of the hotels highlights the differences that can be observed between the studied counties. These dissimilarities started to appear due to the different tourist potential and the economic development. With more than two centuries of tradition in the background, the hotels in Transylvania experienced, along their evolution, a series of transformations that led to changes in the structure of their offer. In the urban context, the hotel stands as a main element when defining the city's tourist role, also taking into account that for the city, the presence of hotels, from different categories and with different levels of comfort, is imperative.

An Exploratory Research On History Of Cluj Hotels

USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration, 2014

Cluj-Napoca has a long and interesting history. The City of Cluj is considered the “capital of Transylvania” because it is an important academic, cultural and business center, an interesting tourist destination for various types of tourists. The present study makes an analysis regarding the hotels from Cluj during the 19th and 20th centuries. The analysis is focusing on history of the hotels, their market evolution and the stories related to those hotels. This period was chosen for this research because represent the beginnings of the Cluj hotels market. For the investigations it was used exploratory research, obtaining secondary data through different types of sources: history books, published studies, web sites and old pictures. The present research has two main objectives: the first one is to explore the Cluj history in order to identify the hotels present on the market during the 19th and 20th centuries; the second one is to revile some stories related to the hotels, owners and ...