THE SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ACCOMMODATION WITH THE USE OF POI DATA

Abstract

This study investigates the geographical dimension of tourist accommodation in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and attempts to synthesize its spatial structure. The countries were chosen for the study due to their undoubted tourism qualities, their proximity in terms of location and, at the same time, the fundamental diversity of country size, population and access to the sea. The basis of this research was the use of point of interest (POIs), an open-source data, to analyse the spatial heterogeneity of the different types of accommodation. Kernel Density Estimation and Empirical Bayesian Kriging were used in the research.