Occupancy of tourist accommodation establishments in Poland – comparison of 2019, the period of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent months of 2020

The paper aims to present changes in terms of the use of tourist accommodation establishments in Poland in 2020 as compared to the year preceding the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus primarily on the desk research method, analysing in detail the news releases presented by Statistics Poland (Central Statistical Office) in relation to the subject of the article. The authors obtained answers to the posed research questions. The main conclusion of the article is that the use of tourist accommodation facilities in Poland decreased drastically after the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which was most noticeable in voivodeships featuring high density of accommodation facilities.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).