STUDY ON STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF ESTABLISHMENT OF TOURISTIC RECEPTION WITH FUNCTIONS OF TOURISTIC ACCOMMODATION IN COUNTRIES OF EUROPEAN UNION

The article aims to analyse structural characteristics of tourist reception with functions of tourist accommodation in the European Union countries. Thus, the study has analysed services and facilities offered by over 440,000 establishments of touristic reception with functions of tourist accommodation, over 700 touristic destinations and 168 hotel chains. In order to evaluate tourist services and facilities, over 8.7 million questionnaires were filled in by tourists that had stayed at least one night in establishments of touristic reception with functions of tourist accommodation in the European Union countries. The data gathered in these questionnaires was also analysed in this article.