Pomiar funkcji turystycznej obszarów za pomocą wskaźników funkcji turystycznej na przykładzie obszarów państw europejskich

This paper presents the most popular indicators of the tourist function , and supplements them with modern synthetic metrics. The subject of the application of these indicators is to measure of the tourism function in 31 European countries and making their classification according to the values of measurement used. Unusual problem of engaging research area in the country and not in the local formulation allows for a much more clear showing weaknesses of individual metrics that recognize the problem described. A fragmented approach to the tourism function, prompts to use of synthetic measures which prove to be more useful in classifying particular areas.