Wybrane uwarunkowania atrakcyjności turystycznej i ruchu turystycznego Urugwaju

Abstract

The tourist traffic in the global scale concentrates in the coastal regions. The most visited coastal region is Mediterranean countries. There are a lot of coastal places in others regions of South American, Asian and Pacific and African countries. In the article was taken an issue of the determinants of tourism functioning in Uruguay especially in relation to the coastal zone of this country. The analysis was made basing of the statistic data from the Annuario Estadistico del Uruguay 2013. The results show Uruguay have the most tourist attractive force among the others Latin American countries. The most developed tourist region of the Uruguay is the coastal region in south part of the country. There are about 80% of the tourist accommodation places in the coastal region. The most visited region by tourists in Uruguay are regions of Costa de Rocha, Costa del Maldonado and Costa de Oro. The most visited destinations are Punta del Ester, Montevideo, health resorts of region Litoral Termal and very famous historic place in the country Colonia del Sacramento.