Ekonomiczne Problemy Turystyki

The importance of sport, tourism and recreation in the development of cities and regions in the world is an already known and indisputable fact. A modern city possesses various public spaces where social activities take place, and where sport and recreation areas constitute a specific and attractive offer. Sport is an important field of activities carried out by authorities in Poznań, where spending on physical culture is among the highest in the country and is equal to the EU average in this respect. The aim of this article was to evaluate the possibility to use sport-recreation facilities in Poznań and sports-recreational activities offered there. In order to achieve this goal, questionnaire surveys were conducted among 39 service providers and 1159 service recipients at selected sport-recreation facilities in Poznań. The analysis of service recipients’ opinions, who were divided into amateur and professional athletes, has shown that both studied groups highly evaluated the level of equipment in sport and recreation facilities, the availability of services and the range of sports and recreational activities. The applied significance test of variances of tested variables between groups made it possible to distinguish significant differences in the distribution of analysed features and reflects the diversity of opinions in the studied groups. These differences result from various expectations of professional and amateur athletes who use sport-recreation facilities regarding policy effectiveness performed by the City Government of Poznań.