The Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Tourist Attractiveness of Provinces in Poland

Abstract

Quantitative methods find a great application in analysis processes, diagnoses and economic prognoses by means of description and estimation of forming economic variables in time and space as well as expectations regarding direction and character of changes of these variables are becoming more precise. In the article the level of tourist attractiveness of Polish provinces has been analysed. The sequence of individual provinces has been established considering a stated general criterium represented by the suggested variables in the research and cluster analysis has been carried out to isolate subgroups of similar provinces.