Financial and Legal Barriers of Polish Spas Development with a View to Integration with EU Countries Cover Image

Bariery finansowe i legislacyjne rozwoju polskich gmin uzdrowiskowych w perspektywie integracji z Unią Europejską
Financial and Legal Barriers of Polish Spas Development with a View to Integration with EU Countries

Author(s): Tomasz Wołowiec
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: EUROREG - Uniwersytet Warszawski, Regional Studies Association - Sekcja Polska
Keywords: health spa; health spa economy; integration with European Union

Summary/Abstract: Polish health spa are that category of communes whose development do not depend on the inhabitants′ activities but on central solutions. The lack of comprehensive solutions that would control legal and financial basics of functioning and development of health spa causes the spa to be subject to one-sided economic development and one-sector employment. The spa must fulfil the tasks, unknown to other communes, connected with maintenance and development of infrastructure of health resorts and their neighbouring areas. The lack for finances to the development of health spa, many tax exemptions and tax relief often cause the communes to allocate their own inhabitants′ means to the maintenance of health spa; means intended for the realization of their own statutory tasks. The lack of law about health resorts causes increase financial problems of this category of spa, rising unemployment and degradation of health resort infrastructure.

  • Issue Year: 4/2003
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 97-106
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish