HOTELS' LODGING SERVICES MARKET ANALYSIS IN POLAND IN 2003-2008

The main purpose of this article is the answer a question how polish hotels' base looks like, both comparing structure of the categorized hotels, their geographical dispersion, comparison to other EU countries and dynamics and direction of development? Does hotels' rooms supply follow the demand for lodging services and if the structure of supply is adequate to the structure of demand (as a distinguishing feature is used hotel's category)? In the purpose of answering the above questions indexes of dynamics and analysis of structure were used. Primary thesis was stated that there is underdevelopment of hotels' base in Poland and in the past years 2003-2008 despite of growing investments this underdevelopment did not diminish.