%0 Journal Article
%T Ocena wielkości ruchu turystycznego w ośrodku narciarskim Kotelnica Białczańska w sezonie zimowym 2014/2015
%A Krzesiwo, Kinga
%J Prace Geograficzne
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/20833113PG.16.012.5401
%N Zeszyt 145
%P 47-70
%K ski resorts, tourist traffic, methodology, Białka Tatrzańska
%@ 1644-3586
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-geograficzne/artykul/ocena-wielkosci-ruchu-turystycznego-w-osrodku-narciarskim-kotelnica-bialczanska-w-sezonie-zimowym-2014-2015
%X 
	Evaluation of the size of tourist traffic in the Kotelnica Białczańska Ski Resort in the winter season 2014/2015

	From the point of view of sustainable development of tourist localities, an important issue is the continuous monitoring of tourist traffic and the timely response to fluctuations in its size. Determination of the number of persons participating in tourist traffic is an extremely difficult undertaking. Research into tourist traffic is carried out in Poland but a vast majority of it is periodic and incomplete. Furthermore, the methods used to determine tourist traffic are burdened with many defects, so they do not give grounds to determine the number of people resting in tourist facilities and localities. The aim of this article is to estimate the number of single persons that use the services of the Kotelnica Białczańska Ski Resort in Białka Tatrzańska in the winter season 2014/2015 and to identify the source areas of tourist traffic. In contrast to the most of publications taking up the issue of the size of tourist traffic, in this work a person who came to the studied ski resort several times in a  season was not counted as a few people but as one person. The assumptions and calculations contained in the article allow to conclude that about 318 000–342 000 people visited the Kotelnica Białczańska Ski Resort in the winter season 2014/2015, of which about 291 000–312 000 were tourists from Poland and about 27 000–30 000 from abroad. Those from Poland accounted for 91.3% visitors and they came from all voivodships of the country. About ⅓ of them arrived from the agglomerations of Warsaw and Cracow. Foreign tourists accounted for 8.7% of all people relaxing in the studied ski resort. They came from 34 countries of the world,  excluding Poland. The research method presented in this article allows to estimate the number of single persons resting in a given area and in a specified time as well as it allows for a precise indication of the source areas of tourist traffic. However, an unquestionable disadvantage of the method is its time- and labor-consuming character.