Geographical diversity and changes in foreign trips from Poland in 2009-2018

Abstract

In 2009 foreign tourist traffic from Poland amounted to around 5.5 million people, to
reach the number of over 12 million Poles in 2018 who went abroad for holidays. Due to the volume
of tourist traffic, this phenomenon requires research. The purpose of the analysis, on the one hand,
is to indicate the main geographical directions of tourist trips from Poland, and on the other hand
the changes that have occurred in destinations chosen by tourists from Poland in the last ten years.
The work also attempts to indicate the main factors affecting changes in tourist destinations.
Political changes, Poland’s accession to the EU, economic changes, and the global economic crisis
are obviously accompanied by changes in tourism, its size and the choice of leisure destinations for
Poles. How important this problem is shown not only by the above data, but also by changes among
the most frequently chosen geographical tourist destinations for Poles. The paper presents changes
in the number of tourists in the largest tourist destinations from Poland. An attempt was also
made to analyze changes in the volume of charter tourist traffic, which most accurately indicates
the numerical changes and assessment of geographical changes in directions of foreign tourism from
Poland.