Wpływ pandemii COVID-19 na funkcjonowanie sektora organizacji i obsługi ruchu turystycznego w nadmorskiej strefie turystycznej Pobrzeża Bałtyku
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourist traffic in the coastal areas of the Polish Baltic Coast

Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the functioning of the world economy. The lockdowns introduced several times and the related restrictions on the freedom of movement of the population and the suspension of the activities of most tourist enterprises had a negative impact on the functioning of the tourism sector, especially in those areas whose development is strongly related to tourist services.This study analyzes changes in the functioning of tourism development and traffic in the coastal tour-ist zone in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office (GUS) in the field of selected indicators and measures of tourism development and traffic in communes and poviats of the coastal tourist zone BY the Baltic Coast were used.The results of the study indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic and the related sanitary and epidemic restrictions have had a significant impact on the tourism industry. To a much greater extent, the im-pact of the COVID-19 pandemic was visible in the values of measures and indicators describing tour-ism, and to a lesser extent in the values of measures and indicators relating to tourism development.The changes affected the tourist development to a small extent. The variability in the number of fa-cilities and bed places was marked to a small extent, most in the communes of Puck, Nowodworski and Kołobrzeg, and to the smallest extent in the municipal poviats: Gdynia, Gdańsk, Sopot and in the Wejherowo poviat.A much higher degree of variability concerned selected measures and indicators of tourist traffic, i.e. the number of overnight stays and the number of overnight stays, both for domestic and foreign tourists.The highest was in the districts of Kamień, Kołobrzeg and the cities of Świnoujście and Sopot.In most municipalities and coastal districts, a clear compensation of tourist traffic is recorded in the post-pandemic period, which is expressed in significantly increased indicators of the number of over-night stays and the number of overnight stays.At the same time, there are communes where the downward trend in the number of tourists and the number of overnight stays during the COVID-19 pandemic continues in subsequent years.

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