THE USE OF DECISION TREES IN PLANNING EMPLOYMENT IN TOURISM ENTERPRISES*

Abstract

Tourism enterprises are the basic entity of the tourism economy, which operates on the basis of the assumptions of the microeconomic theory of companies. Their economic decisions focus on determining service levels and pricing to maximize profit. However, the functioning of tourism enterprises shows a significant sector specificity resulting mainly from the seasonality of tourism demand. Because seasonality means that tourism enterprises use their material, financial and human resources to the full only for a small part of the year. In the context of employment, this forces tourism enterprises to use different planning methods from the traditional ones. The aim of the article is to try to answer the questions about the basic possibilities of determining the labor demand in tourism enterprises and to check what determines the choice of approach to determining the level of employment. To solve this problem, the conclusions of the literature review and the conclusions of the survey conducted among the tourism industry companies in the Polish seaside area were used. Methods of building and analyzing decision trees were used to explain the mechanism of determining the labor demand in the tourism industry.