Podobieństwo miast pod względem charakteru internacjonalizacji funkcji turystycznej a potencjał konkurencyjny przemysłu spotkań

Natalia Piechota , Piotr Zmyślony

Abstract

In their article, the authors included results of research on internationalisation of the tourist function of the ten biggest cities in Poland. Based on the statistical breakdown published by the CSO and other institutions, there is set up a ranking arranging the said cities by the degree of internationalisation of their tourist function, what allowed carrying out an advanced cluster analysis with the use of the Ward's method. Clusters are a context of the analysis of competitiveness of the cities in question in the international market for meetings. The surveys show that competition in the market for meetings takes place, first of all, between the towns and cities with a similar level of internationalisation of the tourist function, and this concerns the towns of the second- and third-rate importance in the structure of global towns.