Analysis of supply and demand for accommodation services for tourists in Utena county

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of supply and demand of accommodation services for tourists in Utena County. Therefore, tourism as a whole and accommodation services more particularly act as a lever for job creation, poverty reduction, improving livelihoods and generating local economic development prospects, which is very important for Lithuania’s economy more broadly as well as to its regions’ (counties) sustainable development. So, there is a need of comprehensive analysis of the conditions of accommodation services in particular Countes, i.e. the supply and the demand of accommodation services for local residents and foreign tourists. The structure of the thesis. Section 1 provides an overview of the literature on the accommodation services as a part of tourism industry as well as to examines theoretical aspects of supply and demand of accommodation services. Section 2 evaluates the statistics of accommodation services in Lithuania and Utena county as well as presents the empirical research on supply and demand of accommodation in Utena county. Section 3 provides proposals to improve accommodation sector in Utena county. Scope of the thesis – the paper constists of 52 pages, 8 tables, 27 figures, 35 sources of literature and information, 1 Appendix.