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There is still a small contribution of German tourists visiting Polish natural protection areas at Polish- German borderlands despite the border checks elimination in 2007. An example of protected areas in Poland located at the borderland is the Wolin National Park (WNP); the share of foreign visitors of the park including Germans, is still marginal (approx. 0.7%). The paper is aimed at presentation of the possibilities of using multiple correspondence analysis to study Polish and German tourists visiting WPN. At fi rst the travel preferences have been illustrated by the method of Chernoff faces. The specific objective of the research was to investigate relationship between variables characterizing German and Polish tourists. Also Ward’s method was applied because of the relatively large number of analyzed variable variants; it allowed indicating the links between the variants. The latter revealed 3 groups of tourists visiting WPN; two of them distinguished diff erent nationalities. The calculations and graphical presentations of the results have been computed with Statistica software version 10.0.